Flower: North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Flower: North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Embo
Canmore ID 261151
Site Number NH89SW 8001
NGR NH
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH89SW 8001 unlocated
NLO: Embo [name: NH 818 928].
7 May 1884, FLOWER, 1 yr old, not registered, wooden lugger, 4 tons, 5 crew, Master A. Cumming, Owner W. Mackay, Wick, departed Embo, Sutherlandshire, for fishing, in ballast, capsized, 5 lives lost, wind SE7, total loss, off Embo, Co. Sutherland.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3501).
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), 14 July 2004.
