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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 854444
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/854444
ND01NW 8013 c. 02 15
N58 7 W3 40
NLO: Helmsdale [name: ND 028 153].
Possibly on map sheet ND01SW.
See also ND01NW 8015.
Helmsdale, 24th Feb. The DUNROBIN CASTLE (fishing boat), of Wick, was wrecked here, 22nd Feb.: crew saved.
Source, LL, No. 17,750, London, Wednesday, March 8 1871.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11981).
(Classified as Fishing Boat: date of loss cited as 22 February 1871). Dunrobin Castle: this vessel was wrecked at Helmsdale.
Registration: Wick.
(Location of loss cited as N58 7.00 W3 39.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Helmsdale Harbour (ND01NW 61.00) is centred at ND 03002 15154.
This vessel may be that wrecked 'on the East Spit' that is noted in ND01NW 8015.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 March 2007.
