Alpha: Balintore Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Steam Drifter (20th Century)
Site Name Alpha: Balintore Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Steam Drifter (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Balintore Harbour Mouth; Shandwick Bay; Moray Firth; Three Kings' Rocks; Cromarty Firth; Alpha
Canmore ID 209670
Site Number NH87NE 8002
NGR NH 864 754
NGR Description NH c. 864 754
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH87NE 8002 c. 864 754
N57 45.2 W3 54.5
NLO: Balintore [name: NH 866 756]
Cromarty Firth [name centred NH 69 67]
Shandwick Bay [name centred NH 864 750].
(Classified as wooden, steam drifter, in ballast: date of loss cited as 8 May 1908). Alpha: this vessel stranded on Three Kings Rock, Cromarty, then stranded at the mouth [entrance] of Balintore harbour. [Capt.] Ritchie.
Registration: Great Yarmouth. Built 1879. 3 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 45.25 W3 54.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Balintore harbour (NH87NE 17) is at NH 8640 7549.
Three Kings Rock is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 August 2005.
Loss (8 May 1908)
(Classified as wooden, steam drifter, in ballast: date of loss cited as 8 May 1908). Alpha: this vessel stranded on Three Kings Rock, Cromarty, then stranded at the mouth [entrance] of Balintore harbour. [Capt.] Ritchie.
Registration: Great Yarmouth. Built 1879. 3 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 45.25 W3 54.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (18 August 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Balintore harbour (NH87NE 17) is at NH 8640 7549.
Three Kings Rock is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 August 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4998
Name : ALPHA
Latitude : 574515
Longitude : 35430
Date Built : 1879
Registration : GREAT YARMOUTH
Type : STEAM DRIFTER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 3
Loss Day : 8
Loss Month : 5
Loss Year : 1908
Comment : Stranded Three Kings Rock, Cromarty then stnded mouth of Balintore Hbr. Ritchie
Cargo : BALLAST
