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Industry: Stag Rocks, Cape Wrath, Atlantic
Dandy (19th Century)
Site Name Industry: Stag Rocks, Cape Wrath, Atlantic
Classification Dandy (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Stag Rock; Pentland Firth; Industry
Canmore ID 220967
Site Number NC27NE 8011
NGR NC 25 75
NGR Description NC c. 25 75
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC27NE 8011 c. 25 75
N58 38 W5 1
NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheet NC27SE.
Location formerly entered as NC c. 256 750 [N58 37.7 W5 0.3].
22 October 1897 INDUSTRY, 26 years, of Grimsby, wood dandy, 62 ton, 6 men, master and owner J. Jones, Grimsby. Grimsby to fishing. Ballast. Calm. Stag Rocks near Cape Wrath, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 802).
(Classified as wooden dandy, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 October 1897). Industry: this vessel stranded on Stag Rock, near Cape Wrath. Capt. Jones.
Registration: Grimsby. Built 1871. 62 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 38.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Stag Rock or Rocks are not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 September 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4116
Name : INDUSTRY
Latitude : 583800
Longitude : 50000
Date Built : 1871
Registration : GRIMSBY
Type : DANDY (WOOD)
Tonnage : 62
Loss Day : 22
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1897
Comment : Stranded Stag Rk, near Cape Wrath. Capt. Jones
Cargo : BALLAST
