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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 853646
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/853646
ND16NW 8058 c. 11 69
N58 36 W3 32
NLO: Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Thurso Bay [name centred ND 115 699]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheet ND17SW.
Thurso, 22nd Dec. The cargo of the SISTERS, of Wick, which was wrecked 20th Dec., is being saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,201, London, Friday, December 26 1862.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10320).
(Classifed as schooner, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 19 December 1862). Sisters: this vessel was wrecked in Thurso Bay.
Registration: Wick.
(Location of loss cited as N58 36.0 W3 31.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location of loss assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The classification and cargo cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 January 2007.