Betsey's: Dunnet Sands, Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth

ND26NW 8008 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.

23 February 1894, BETSY'S, about 14 years, not reg. Wood lugger. 16 ton. 8 men. Master G. Mackay. Owner J.E. Harper, Wick. Scrabster to fishing. Ballast. Wind NW10. East end of Dunnet Sands, Pentland Firth.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1217).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss as 23 February 1894). Betsy's: this vessel stranded at the E end of [the] Dunnet Sands. Capt. Mackay.

Not registered. Built 1880. 16 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 37.0 W3 21.0).

(Classified as 'lugsail': no cargo specified, but registration number cited as WK 714, and date of loss as 23 February 1894). Betsys: this vessel was wrecked in [the] Dunnet Sands. Capt. Robertson.

Registration: Wick. 18 tons register. Length: 12m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 36.0 W3 22.0).

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.

The loss of this vessel is recorded twice by Whittaker.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 September 2002.