Archaeology Notes

Event ID 853760

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/853760

ND17SW 8046 c. 10 70

N58 37 W3 33

NLO: Thurso [name: ND 115 687]

Scrabster [name: ND 102 702].

Thurso Bay [name centred ND 115 699]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheet or ND17NW.

Scrabster, 12th Nov. The CHRISTINE MARIE, Knudsen, from Dram, snapped her chains and drove on shore here: the deck load is being thrown off.

Source: LL, No. 14,856, London, Friday, November 15 1861.

Scrabster, 19th Nov. The CHRISTINE MARIE (Norw. ship), Knudsen, from Dram, which got ashore here 11th Nov., has been got off without damage, and is now discharging.

Source: LL, No. 14,862, London, Friday, November 22 1861.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10152).

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of her successful recovery.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 February 2007.