George: Loch Eriboll, Atlantic

NC45NE 8005 c. 45 65

N58 33 W4 40

NLO: Rispond [name: NC 451 654]

Rispond Bay [name centred NC 456 652]

Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheets or NC45SE.

16 December 1882, GEORGE, 10 yrs old, not registered, wooden boat, unknown tonnage say 1, 2 crew, Master C. McKay, Owner G. McKay, Portnacou, Loch Eriboll, Sutherlandshire, departed Portnacou for fishing, in ballast, 2 lives lost, wind S.E.8, foundered, total loss, off Rispond, Loch Eriboll, Sutherlandshire. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3295).

(Classified as wooden smack, in ballast: date of loss cited as 16 December 1882). George: this vessel foundered off Rispond, Loch Eriboll. Capt. MacKay.

Not registered. Built 1872. 1 ton [unspecified].

(location of loss cited as N58 33.0 W4 38.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Portnacou is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but may be tentatively equated with Portnancon [name: NC 427 603], on the W side of Loch Eriboll.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 July 2004.