Antagonist: Talmine, Tongue Bay, Atlantic
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Antagonist: Talmine, Tongue Bay, Atlantic
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Talmin; Tralmine; Kyle Of Tongue; Cape Wrath; Pentland Firth; Antagonist
Canmore ID 260698
Site Number NC56SE 8009
NGR NC 58 62
NGR Description NC c. 58 62
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC56SE 8009 c. 58 62
N58 31 W4 26
NLO: Talmine [name: NC 584 629]
Talmine Island [name: NC 591 624]
Tongue Bay [name centred NC 606 615]
Kyle of Tongue [name centred NC 58 58]
Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
See also NC55NE 8001.
22 November 1881, ANTAGONIST, age unknown, not registered, wooden smack, 14 tons, 3 crew, Master G. Gow, Owner The Duke of Sutherland, Dunrobin, Co. Sutherland, departed Tongue, Co. Sutherland, for Thurso, Caithness, in ballast, wind S6, stranded, total loss, Talmin [Talmine], N. Sutherland.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1881-82 (1883 [C.3487] LXIII.135).
Wick, Nov. 29, ANTAGONIST smack, of this port, has been totally wrecked at Tralmine [Talmine], near Tongue. The ANN smack, of Banff, has also received damage through getting ashore near Tongue. Both casualties occurred on the 22d inst. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3224).
Wick, Nov. 29, ANTAGONIST smack, of this port, has been totally wrecked at Tralmine, near Tongue. The ANN smack, of Banff, has also received damage through getting ashore near Tongue. Both casualties occurred on the 22d inst. 26 [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5291).
(Classified as wooden smack, in ballast; date of loss cited as 22 November 1881). Antagonist: this vessel stranded at Talmin [Talmine]. Capt. Gow. Not registered. 14 [tons register].
(Location of loss cited as N58 32 W4 25.67).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 July 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3679
Name : ANTAGONIST
Latitude : 583200
Longitude : 42540
Registration : Not Registered
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 14
Loss Day : 22
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1881
Comment : Stranded at Talmin. Capt. Gow
Cargo : BALLAST