Archaeology Notes

Event ID 852014

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH75NE 8008 c. 76 56

N57 35 W4 4

NLO: Fort George [name: NH 762 567]

Ardersier [name: NH 782 550]

Inverness [name: NH 665 455].

Caledonian Canal, 9th Mar. The VALIANT (smack), of and for Port Madoc [Porthmadoc], from Cromarty Firth, with potatoes, ran upon the Riff bank, below Fort George, during a thick snow shower yesterday, and immediately broke up: crew saved.

Source: LL, No. 15,576, London, Saturday, March 12 1864.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10598).

(Classified as smack, with cargo of potatoes: date of loss cited as 8 March 1864). Valiant: this vessel was wrecked on Riff Bank, near Fort George. Registration: Portmadoc.

(Location of loss cited as N57 35.0 W4 6.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The major artillery fortification of Fort George (NH75NE 3.00) is at NH 76079 56674.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 February 2007.