Star: Scrabster Roads, Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth
Sloop (19th Century)(Possible)
Site Name Star: Scrabster Roads, Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Sloop (19th Century)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Holburn Head; Castlehill; Castletown; Dunnet Sands; Dunnet Bay; North Sea
Canmore ID 221729
Site Number ND17SW 8009
NGR ND 11 70
NGR Description ND c. 11 70
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND17SW 8009 c. 11 70
N58 37 W3 32
NLO: Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Scrabster [name: ND 102 702]
Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704]
Thurso Bay [name centred ND 115 699]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheets ND16NW, or ND27SW.
Thurso, 29th April. 'The STAR, of Inverness, from Liverpool to Dingwall, which got on shore 24th inst., on the Dunnet Sands, has become a total wreck.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9405, London, Friday May 3 1844.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7863).
(Classification cited as '?sloop', and cargo as salt: date of loss cited as 24 April 1844). Star: this vessel was wrecked at Castlehill, Dunnet Sands. Capt. McClasty. Registration: Inverness.
(Location of loss cited as N58 35.8 W3 22.75).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. 'Castlehill' probably refers to Castletown [name: ND 196 678] and 'Dunnet Sands' to the extensive sands at the SE end of Dunnet Bay, around ND 21 69.
The classification and cargo cited by Whittaker remain unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 September 2002.
