Heroine: Atlantic
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Heroine: Atlantic
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Cape Wrath'; Pentland Firth
Canmore ID 257691
Site Number NC27NE 8013
NGR NC
NGR Description Unlocated
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/257691
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC27NE 8013 unlocated
NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
31 August 1875, HEROINE, 10 yrs old, wooden lugger, 15 tons, 6 crew, Master M. Campbell, Owner W. Begg, Pulteneytown, Wick, departed Wick for Stornoway, in ballast, foundered, total loss, 6 lives lost, wind N7, off Cape Wrath.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1875 - 76 (1876 [C.1632] LXVII.191).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2640).
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 May 2004.
