Archaeology Notes

Event ID 851303

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND38SW 8039 c. 311 753

N58 39.6 W3 11.3

NLO: St John's Point [name: ND 311 753]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Thurso, 15th July. [recd. 18th, per E.T. from Inverness at 10.20]. The BOOMERANG (brig), of Dundee, from Havana to Copenhagen, struck on St. John's Point, Pentland Firth: shortly in deep water: crew saved: vessel and cargo lost.

Source: LL, No. 15,064, London, Friday, July 18 1862.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10240).

(Classified as brig, with cargo of sugar: date of loss cited as 15 July 1862). Boomerang: this vessel was wrecked on St John's Reef.

Registration: Dundee. Built 1854. 214grt. Length: 30m. Beam: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 39.67 W3 11.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. St John's Reef is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name presumably applies to some or all of the rocks beneath St John's Point.

The cargo cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 November 2006.