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Sophia: Atlantic
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Sophia: Atlantic
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Cape Wrath'; Pentland Firth; Sophia
Canmore ID 252778
Site Number NC27NE 8012
NGR NC 26 79
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/252778
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC27NE 8012 unlocated
NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
16 August 1884, SOPHIA, 36 yrs old, registered at Carnarvon, wooden schooner, 63 tons, 3 crew, Jones Master, Owner D. Roberts, Portmadoc, departed Thurso for Greenock carrying pavement. Wind SSE 6. Foundered off Cape Wrath, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1821).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 16 August 1884). Sophia: this vessel foundered off Cape Wrath. Capt. Jones.
Registration: Caernarvon. Built 1848. 63 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. This falls immediately N of Cape Wrath.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 December 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3170
Name : SOPHIA
Latitude : 584000
Longitude : 50000
Date Built : 1848
Registration : CAERNARVON
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 63
Loss Day : 16
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1884
Comment : Foundered off Cape Wrath. Capt. Jones
Cargo : PAVEMENT
