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Margaret: Portskerra, Pentland Firth
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Margaret: Portskerra, Pentland Firth
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Seven Miles Off Port Skerray'; North Sea; Margaret
Canmore ID 253836
Site Number NC87NE 8004
NGR NC 88 78
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/253836
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC87NE 8004 unlocated
NLO: Portskerra [name: NC 877 657]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheet NC87SE.
7th July 1884, MARGARET, age unknown, not registered, wooden lugger, 12 tons, 5 crew. Master and Owner J. Simpson, Thurso. Departed Scrabster for fishing, in ballast. Collided with schooner HARVEST KING of Runcorn. Wind SE5, about 7 miles off Port Skerray [Portskerra], Caithness-shire.
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. 1980).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 7 July 1884). Margaret: this vessel was in collision and sank about 7 miles off Port Skerray [Portskerra], (Harvest King). Capt. Simpson.
Not registered. 12 tons unspecified.
(location of loss cited as N58 41.0 W3 55.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 January 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3172
Name : MARGARET
Latitude : 584100
Longitude : 35500
Registration : Not Registered
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 12
Loss Day : 7
Loss Month : 7
Loss Year : 1884
Comment : Collision and sunk approx 7 mls off Port Skerray (HARVEST KING). Capt. Simpson
Cargo : BALLAST
