Family's Friend: Clardon Head, Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Family's Friend: Clardon Head, Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Wk 377; Family's & Friend; Murkle Bay; Clairdon Head
Canmore ID 221956
Site Number ND17SE 8002
NGR ND 16 70
NGR Description ND c. 16 70
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND17SE 8002 c. 16 70
N58 37 W3 27
NLO: Clardon Head [name: ND 153 703]
Murkle Bay [name centred ND 171 694]
Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
11 May 1893. FAMILY'S FRIEND. 7 years. Not reg. Wood fishing lugger. 18 ton. 5 men. Master J. Bremner. Owner A.O. Crawford, Wick. Wick to Scrabster. Ballast. Wind SW squally. Clairdon [Clardon] Head, Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1892-93 (1894 [C.7324] LXXVI.505).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1308).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as WK 377 and date of loss as 11 May 1893). Family's Friend: this vessel stranded at Clairdon [Clardon] Head, Caithness. Capt. Bremner.
Registration: Wick. Built 1886. 18 tons register. Length: 13m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 36.75 W3 27.5.
I G Whittaker 1998.
