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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 861283

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/861283

NC05SW 8002 unlocated

NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].

(Classified as Lugger: no cargo specified, but registration cited as BF 431, and date of loss as 6 November 1905). Brothers: this vessel capsized and sank approximately 18 miles SE of Cape Wrath. (Inland: this SW?).

Registration: Findochty. 4 tons register. Length: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 25.0 W5 25.0).

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), 3 July 2008.

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