Ben Ma Chree: Beauly Firth
Steamship (19th Century)
Site Name Ben Ma Chree: Beauly Firth
Classification Steamship (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Mullochy Bay; Munlochy Bay; 'halfway Between Fort George And Inverness'; Inverness Firth; Inner Moray Firth
Canmore ID 255209
Site Number NH64NE 8005
NGR NH 69 49
NGR Description NH c. 69 49
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH64NE 8005 c. 69 49
N57 31 W4 11
NLO: Beauly Firth [name centred NH 59 47]
Inverness [name: NH 66 45]
Munlochy Bay [name centred NH 677 527]
Fort George [name: NH 762 567]
See also NH64NE 8004.
Possibly on map sheets NH65SE, or NH75SW.
1 October 1860, BEN MA CREE, SS, of Leith, 325 tons, William Gordon Bennett, Master, in collision in Mullochy Bay, half way between Fort George and Inverness, with the SS TIMES. Neither vessel was lost. Inquiry ordered before the Local Marine Board at Leith, with Captain James Clarke as Nautical Assessor.
Part III: Containing a precis of Special Inquiries into Casualties, ordered by the Board of Trade during the Year 1861. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2149).
The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially speculative and arbitrary. The collision most probably occurred in the open Beauly Firth rather than within the shallow waters of Munlochy Bay.
The major artillery fortification of Fort George (NH75NE 3.00) is at NH 76079 56674.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by Whittaker, presumably as she was recovered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 March 2003.
