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Margaret Gunn: Gills Bay, Pentland Firth
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Margaret Gunn: Gills Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Duncansby Head; North Sea; Margaret Gunn
Canmore ID 260903
Site Number ND37SW 8007
NGR ND 33 73
NGR Description ND c. 33 73
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND37SW 8007 c. 33 73
N58 38 W3
NLO: Gills Bay [name centred ND 333 732]
Duncansby Head [name: ND 406 733]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Formerly classified as Fishing Vessel.
19 January 1883, MARGARET GUNN, 5 yrs old, not registered, wooden lugger, 25 tons, 7 crew, Master J. McLean, Owner G. Doull, Wick, departed Wick for fishing, in ballast, wind S. by E.10, stranded, total loss, Gills Bay, near Duncansby Head, Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1882-83 (1884 [C.4154] LXXI.621).
MARGARET GUNN, Wick, Jan 23. The MARGARET GUNN fishing lugger, of Wick, was totally wrecked in Gill's Bay Jan. 19: crew saved.
Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,448, London, Friday, January 26 1883.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3338).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 19 January 1883). Margaret Gunn: this vessel stranded at Gills Bay, near Duncansby Head. Capt. McLean.
Not registered. Built 1878. 25 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 38.5 W3 9.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3389
Name : MARGARET GUNN
Latitude : 583830
Longitude : 30900
Date Built : 1878
Registration : Not Registered
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 25
Loss Day : 19
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1883
Comment : Stranded Gills Bay, near Duncansby Hd. Capt. McLean
Cargo : BALLAST
