Hansom: Portmahomack Bay, Dornoch Firth
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Hansom: Portmahomack Bay, Dornoch Firth
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bf 213; Hansom (Bf 213)
Canmore ID 252867
Site Number NH98SW 8003
NGR NH 913 844
NGR Description NH c. 913 844
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH98SW 8003 c. 913 844
N57 50.2 W3 49.9
NLO: Portmahomack [name: NH 915 813]
Dornoch Firth [name centred NH 87 89].
Location formerly entered as NH c. 913 844 [N57 50.2 W3 49.9].
Possibly on map sheet NH98NW.
13 August 1885, HANSOM, 16 yrs old, not registered, wooden lugger, 15 tons, 5 crew. Master and Owner W. Thompson, Buckie. Departed Buckie for fishing, in ballast. Wind NNE9, stranded Portmahomack Bay, Co. Ross.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1873).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as BF 213 and date of loss as 13 August 1885). Hansom: the vessel stranded in Portmahomack Bay. Capt. Thomson.
Registration: Buckie. Built 1868. 15grt. Length: 10m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 50.25 W3 50.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Portmahomack Bay is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the well-defined indentation in front of Portmahomack village.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 December 2003.
Loss (13 August 1885)
13 August 1885, HANSOM, 16 yrs old, not registered, wooden lugger, 15 tons, 5 crew. Master and Owner W. Thompson, Buckie. Departed Buckie for fishing, in ballast. Wind NNE9, stranded Portmahomack Bay, Co. Ross.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1873).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as BF 213 and date of loss as 13 August 1885). Hansom: the vessel stranded in Portmahomack Bay. Capt. Thomson.
Registration: Buckie. Built 1868. 15grt. Length: 10m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 50.25 W3 50.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (15 December 2003)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Portmahomack Bay is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the well-defined indentation in front of Portmahomack village.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 December 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3500
Name : HANSOM (BF 213)
Latitude : 575015
Longitude : 35000
Date Built : 1868
Registration : BUCKIE
Type : LUGSAIL (WOOD)
Tonnage : 15
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 10
Loss Day : 13
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1885
Comment : Stranded Portmahomack Bay. Capt. Thomson
Cargo : BALLAST