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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 859671
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/859671
NC27NE 8029 unlocated
NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
(Classified as Sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 1867). Williams: this vessel was lost off Cape Wrath.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1844. 20 tons burthern. Length: 12m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. This falls immediately N of Cape Wrath.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 June 2008.
