Fraternitas: River Thurso, Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Fraternitas: River Thurso, Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Thurso River; Scrabster Roads; North Sea; Fraternitas
Canmore ID 252876
Site Number ND16NW 8031
NGR ND 122 688
NGR Description ND c. 122 688
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND16NW 8031 c. 122 688
N58 36.9 W3 30.7
NLO: Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Thurso Bay [name centred ND 115 699]
Scrabster [name: ND 102 702]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
10 November 1885, FRATERNITAS, 38 yrs old, registered Denmark, wooden schooner, 136 tons, 6 crew. Master P.E. Sorvin, Owner L. Proserhold, Denmark. Departed Gefle for Thurso carrying wood. Wind S2, stranded entrance to Thurso River, Caithness.
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. 1891).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of wood: date of loss cited as 10 November 1885). Fraternitas: this vessel stranded at the entrance to the Thurso River. Capt. Sorvin.
Registration: Danish. Built 1847. 136 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 36.0 W3 30.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The River Thurso (Thurso River) enters the SE corner of Thurso Bay through a well-defined mouth.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 December 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3484
Name : FRATERNITAS
Latitude : 583600
Longitude : 33030
Date Built : 1847
Registration : DANISH
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 136
Loss Day : 10
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1885
Comment : Stranded entr to Thurso river. Capt. Sorvin
Cargo : WOOD
