Good Design: Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Good Design: Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) North Sea; Atlantic
Canmore ID 255960
Site Number ND47NE 8043
NGR ND
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND47NE 8043 unlocated
NLO: Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Pentland Skerries [name centred ND 470 775].
8 June 1871, GOOD DESIGN, of Wick, 49 yrs old, schooner, 85 tons, 5 crew, departed Wick for Stornoway, in ballast, vessel abandoned in dangerous position, partial loss, 4 lives lost, wind NNW1, Pentland, Skerries.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2423).
The Pentland Skerries fall within the administrative area of Orkney, and this wreck is assigned accordingly to the quasi-administrative area of Maritime - Orkney. It is unclear what became of the vessel after abandonment, and the map sheet assigned to this record must, accordingly, be considered arbitrary; she may have sunk or stranded within the quasi-administrative area defined as Maritime - Highland.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 March 2004.
