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Williams: Loch Eriboll, Atlantic
Snow (19th Century)
Site Name Williams: Loch Eriboll, Atlantic
Classification Snow (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Pentland Firth; Williams
Canmore ID 258482
Site Number NC46NE 8022
NGR NC 46 65
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/258482
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC46NE 8022 unlocated
NLO: Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
See also NC46SE 8013 and NC46SE 8014.
Possibly on map sheets NC45NW, NC45NE, NC45SW, NC45SE, or NC46SW.
Wick, 23rd Jan. [1846]. 'The following vessels were driven on shore at Loch Erribol 8th inst., during a violent gale: the WILLIAMS, Nairn, of Arbroath, loaded for the Clyde: crew saved: UNITY, from Lerwick to Liverpool: crew saved: and the MARGARET & ISABELLA, Lowrey, from Portmahomack to Ireland: crew saved.' [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8060).
(Classified as snow, with cargo of hemp: date of loss cited as 8 January 1846). Williams: this vessel stranded at Loch Eriboll. Capt. Nairn.
Registration: Arbroath. Built 1822. 95 tons burthern.
(Location of loss cited as N58 33.0 W4 38.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 9923
Name : WILLIAMS
Latitude : 583300
Longitude : 43800
Date Built : 1822
Registration : ARBROATH
Type : SNOW
Tonnage : 95
Tonnage Code : B
Loss Day : 8
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1846
Comment : Stranded at Loch Eriboll. Capt. Nairn
Cargo : HEMP
