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Nymph: Loch Inchard, North Minch
Brigantine (19th Century)
Site Name Nymph: Loch Inchard, North Minch
Classification Brigantine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near Loch Inshort'; Cape Wrath; Atlantic; Nymph
Canmore ID 255114
Site Number NC25NW 8006
NGR NC 20 55
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/255114
- Council Maritime
- Parish Maritime - Offshore
- Former Region Not Applicable
- Former District Not Applicable
- Former County Not Applicable
NC25NW 8006 unlocated
NLO: Loch Inchard [name centred NC 23 55]
Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].
Possibly on map sheet NC15NE.
10 July 1861, NYMPH, 13 yrs old, brigantine, 85 tons, 3 crew, in ballast, stranded, partial loss, 2 lives lost, wind NW9, near Loch Inchard.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1861 (1862 [3028] LIV.845).
Loch Eribol, 12th July. The NYMPH (brig) of Greenock, Clark, from Loch Carron to Newcastle, in ballast, went ashore at Loch Inshort, 10 miles west (? South) of Cape Wrath, yesterday morning, during a gale from the West: crew, except the master, lost.
Source: LL, No. 14,750, London, Monday July 15 1861.
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2133).
(Classified as wooden brigantine, in ballast: date of loss cited as 11 July 1861). Nymph: this vessel was wrecked in Loch Inchard, 10 miles from Cape Wrath. Capt. Clark.
Registration: Greenock. Built 1846. 85grt. Length: 23m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 27.0 W5 5.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 March 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11198
Name : NYMPH
Latitude : 582700
Longitude : 50500
Date Built : 1846
Registration : GREENOCK
Type : BRIGANTINE (WOOD)
Tonnage : 85
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 23
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 11
Loss Month : 7
Loss Year : 1861
Comment : Wrecked in Loch Inchard, 10 miles from Cape Wrath. Capt. Clark
Cargo : BALLAST
