Queen: Badcall Bay, North Minch
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Queen: Badcall Bay, North Minch
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Entrance To Loch Badcall, Sutherland'; Atlantic; Queen
Canmore ID 256083
Site Number NC14SW 8003
NGR NC 15 40
NGR Description NC c. 15 40
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC14SW 8003 c. 15 40
N58 19 W5 9
NLO: Badcall Bay [name centred NC 160 411].
Possibly on map sheets NC03NE, or NC14SE.
10 September 1874, QUEEN, 13 yrs old, of Wick, sloop, wood, 24 tons, 2 crew, Master and Owner J. Macleod, departed Staxigol [Staxigoe] for Dundalk, carrying herrings, wind NW6, stranded, entrance to Lock [Loch] Badcall, Sutherland.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1874 - 75 (1875 [C.1341] LXX.501).
Wick, 17th Sept., the QUEEN (sloop), McLeod, hence to Dundalk, with herrings, struck on a rock near the entrance to Loch Badcall (Sutherlandshire) 10th Sept., and became a total wreck: cargo lost.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,850, London, Monday September 21 [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2498).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 10 September 1874). Queen: this vessel was wrecked at the entrance to Loch Badcall, Sutherland. Capt. McLeod.
(Location of loss cited as N58 19.0 W5 9.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from that cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 March 2004.
Loss (10 September 1874)
10 September 1874, QUEEN, 13 yrs old, of Wick, sloop, wood, 24 tons, 2 crew, Master and Owner J. Macleod, departed Staxigol [Staxigoe] for Dundalk, carrying herrings, wind NW6, stranded, entrance to Lock [Loch] Badcall, Sutherland.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1874 - 75 (1875 [C.1341] LXX.501).
Wick, 17th Sept., the QUEEN (sloop), McLeod, hence to Dundalk, with herrings, struck on a rock near the entrance to Loch Badcall (Sutherlandshire) 10th Sept., and became a total wreck: cargo lost.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,850, London, Monday September 21 [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2498).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 10 September 1874). Queen: this vessel was wrecked at the entrance to Loch Badcall, Sutherland. Capt. McLeod.
(Location of loss cited as N58 19.0 W5 9.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (25 March 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from that cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 March 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13434
Name : QUEEN
Latitude : 581900
Longitude : 50900
Type : SLOOP
Loss Day : 10
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1874
Comment : Wrecked at the entrance to Loch Badcall, Sutherland. Capt. McLeod
Cargo : HERRING
