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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 861140
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/861140
NC29NE 8002 unlocated
NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
See also NC29NE 8003.
(Classified as Brig: cargo cited as salt, and date of loss as 1 April 1814). Symetry (Symmetry?): this vessel was taken and burnt by Scourge, privateer, near Cape Wrath. Capt. Izard.
Registration: Hull.
(Location of loss cited as N58 50.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 October 2008.