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Petty: Helmsdale Bar, North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Petty: Helmsdale Bar, North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Holmesdale Bar; River Helmsdale; Helmsdale Harbour Entrance
Canmore ID 254951
Site Number ND01NW 8006
NGR ND 029 150
NGR Description ND c. 029 150
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/254951
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND01NW 8006 c. 029 150
N58 6.8 W3 38.9
NLO: Helmsdale [name: ND 028 153].
Possibly on map sheet ND01SW.
9th May 1860, PETTY, 3 yrs old, lugger, 5 crew, carrying fish, capsized, total loss, 1 life lost, wind F10, Holmesdale [Helmsdale] Bar, County Sutherland.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1860 (1861 [2811] LVIII.335).
PETTY, struck on Helmsdale Bar, and upset, throwing her crew into the sea. A Nairn boat at once put off, and took 2 men off the keel, and one out of the sea, whom they landed in an exhausted state. A man was then discovered clinging to the mast of the PETTY and nearly half a mile out to sea. The Nairn boat having received damage, and being nearly full of water, the pilot boat was immediately launched, proceeded over the bar in a most violent sea, and succeeded at great risk in saving the drowning man. 15 men were rewarded for their part in the rescue.
Sums paid out of the Mercantile Marine Fund towards Saving Life from Shipwreck. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2052).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Helmsdale Harbour (ND01NW 61.00) is centred at ND 03002 15154.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 March 2004.
