Averill: Scrabster Roads, Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth
Steamship (19th Century)
Site Name Averill: Scrabster Roads, Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Steamship (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Scrabster Roadstead; Butt Of Lewis; North Minch; North Sea; 'west Of St Kilma'; St Kilda
Canmore ID 260600
Site Number ND17SW 8034
NGR ND 11 70
NGR Description ND c. 11 70
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND17SW 8034 c. 11 70
N58 37 W3 32
NLO: Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Scrabster [name: ND 102 702].
Thurso Bay [name centred ND 115 699]
Butt of Lewis [name: NB 519 665]
St Kilda [name: NF 09 99]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheet ND16NW.
See also ND17SW 8031 and ND17SW 8032.
Thurso, Dec. 19, 1.58 p.m., AVERILL. The AVERILL (s), of West Hartlepool, Alton, from Hartlepool for Boston, has been towed into Scrabster Roadstead disabled, having lost propellor off the Butt of Lewis on the 16th inst..
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,484, London, Saturday December 20 1879.
Stromness, Dec. 20, 4.30 p.m., AVERILL (s), Alton, from Hartlepool for Boston (coals and iron), lost propeller west of St. Kilma [Kilda], and was towed in here today by the JOHN O' GROAT, mail steamer. The cargo in the after hold will be discharged, to allow another propeller to be shipped. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4893).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on grounds of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 2004.
