Unity: Loch Eriboll, Atlantic
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unity: Loch Eriboll, Atlantic
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Pentland Firth
Canmore ID 258484
Site Number NC46SE 8013
NGR NC
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC46SE 8013 unlocated
NLO: Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
See also NC46SE 8012 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. 8061).
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2004.
