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Aid: Sandwood Sands, North Minch
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Aid: Sandwood Sands, North Minch
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sandwood Bay; Cape Wrath; Atlantic; Aid
Canmore ID 252872
Site Number NC26NW 8003
NGR NC 22 65
NGR Description NC c. 22 65
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC26NW 8003 c. 22 65
N58 32 W5 3
NLO: Sandwood Bay [name centred NC 225 662]
Sandwood Loch [name centred NC 228 642]
Sandwood [name: NC 220 641]
Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].
Possibly on map sheet NC26SW.
18 September 1885, AID, 15 yrs old, not registered, wooden fishing boat, 12 tons, 8 crew. Master and Owner S. McVea, Belfast. Departed Lerwick for Belfast in ballast. Wind WSW10, stranded Sandwood Sands, Sutherlandshire.
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. 1882).
(Classified as wooden fishing vessel, in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 September 1885). Aid: this vessel stranded at Sandwood Sands, Sutherland. Capt. McLeod.
Not registered. Built 1870. 12 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 32.50 W5 3.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Sandwood Sands are not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name presumably applies to the extensive sands that are indicated around the SE side of Sandwood Bay, an extensive, sand-fringed and gently-curving indentation, which extends from NC c. 231 670 to NC c. 228 651.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 December 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3491
Name : AID
Latitude : 583230
Longitude : 50330
Date Built : 1870
Registration : Not Registered
Type : FV (WOOD)
Tonnage : 12
Loss Day : 18
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1885
Comment : Stranded Sandwood Sands, Sutherland. Capt. McLeod
Cargo : BALLAST
