Brenda: Dunnet Sands, Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth

ND26NW 8007 c. 21 69

N58 36 W3 22

NLO: Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704]

Dunnet Head [name: ND 203 768]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheets or ND27SW.

31 March 1878, BRENDA, 38 yrs old, of Norway, wooden barque, 288 tons, 9 crew, Master H. A. Nielsen, Owner Johansen, Rotter, & Co., Glasgow, departed Christiania for Troon, carrying pit props, wind NW8, stranded, Dunnet Bay, Caithness.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).

Thurso, 1st Apl., 8 a.m., the BRENDA, of Christiania, 288 tons, Nelvin master, Christiania to Troon, cargo pit props, drove ashore from anchors at Dunnet, yesterday: wind N, strong: vessel likely to become a total wreck unless weather moderates.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,948, London, Tuesday April 2 1878.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2861).

(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of pit props: date of loss cited as 31 March 1878). Brenda: this vessel was wrecked on Dunnet Sands. Capt. Nielsen.

Registration: Christiania [Oslo]. Built 1840. 288 tons [unspecified].

(location of loss cited as N58 36.5 W3 21.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Dunnet Sands are not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name may be taken to apply to the extensive sands that extend from ND 216 709 to ND 204 683, around the SE side of Dunnet Bay.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 September 2002.