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Czar: Bay Of Culkein, North Minch
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Czar: Bay Of Culkein, North Minch
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Culkein; Culkien; Czar
Canmore ID 252780
Site Number NC03SW 8001
NGR NC 044 331
NGR Description NC c. 044 331
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/252780
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC03SW 8001 c. 044 331
N58 14.6 W5 20
NLO: Culkein Bay [name: NC 044 331]
Culkein [name: NC 039 330].
December, 1884, CZAR, 24 yrs old, Inverness registered, wooden smack, 25 tons, no-one on board, Owner and Master J. Macrae, Culkein, by Stoer, Sutherlandshire. Moored at Culkein in ballast. Wind F9. Foundered at Culkein, 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. 1824).
(Classified as wooden smack, in ballast: date of loss cited as December 1884). Czar: this vessel foundered at anchor at Culkien [Culkein], Sutherland.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1872. 25grt. Length: 14m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 14.67 W5 20.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 December 2003.
Loss (December 1884)
December, 1884, CZAR, 24 yrs old, Inverness registered, wooden smack, 25 tons, no-one on board, Owner and Master J. Macrae, Culkein, by Stoer, Sutherlandshire. Moored at Culkein in ballast. Wind F9. Foundered at Culkein, 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. 1824).
(Classified as wooden smack, in ballast: date of loss cited as December 1884). Czar: this vessel foundered at anchor at Culkien [Culkein], Sutherland.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1872. 25grt. Length: 14m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 14.67 W5 20.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (10 December 2003)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 December 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3168
Name : CZAR
Latitude : 581440
Longitude : 52000
Date Built : 1872
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 25
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 14
Beam : 4
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1884
Comment : Foundered at anchor at Culkien, Sutherland.
Cargo : BALLAST
