Archaeology Notes

Event ID 853025

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/853025

NC14NW 8006 c. 14 45

N58 21 W5 11

NLO: Scourie [name: NC 157 447]

Scourie Bay [name centred NC 145 454]

Wick [name: ND 361 508].

Possibly on map sheets NC14NE, or NC14SE.

Scourie, (near Wick), 10th Oct. The MARY (smack), of Inverness, McLeod, from Portsoy to Rispond and this place, with timber, dragged her anchor and went ashore here 3rd Oct.: cargo landed: crew saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,521, London, Thursday October 18 1860.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9933).

(Classified as smack, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 3 October 1861). Mary: this vessel stranded at Scourie, Wick. Cargo saved.

Registration: Inverness. Built 1845. 18 tons burthern. Length: 9m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 26.00 W3 3.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this loss is essentially tentative. The cited location at 'Scourie, (near Wick)' is evidently accepted by Whittaker, but is highly misleading.

The date of loss that is cited in the primary account differs from that cited by Whittaker. The former is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 November 2006.