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Binn: Castlehill, Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Binn: Castlehill, Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Wick; North Sea; Binn
Canmore ID 262646
Site Number ND16NE 8010
NGR ND 196 686
NGR Description ND c. 196 686
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/262646
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND16NE 8010 c. 196 686
N58 35.9 W3 23
NLO: Castlehill [name: ND 196 686]
Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704]
Wick [name: ND 362 508]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Castletown, Wick, 8th Mar., the BINN (smack), of this port, from Castlehill to Portsoy, with pavement, stranded in going out of Castlehill, 5th Mar.: crew, sails, rigging, &c., saved: the vessel fills with the tide, and is likely to become a wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,376, London, Thursday March 13 1873.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3951).
(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 5 March 1873). Binn: this vessel stranded at Castlehill, Wick, and [was] expected [to become a] wreck.
Registration: Banff. Built 1872. 22grt. Length: 15m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 25.33 W3 4.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The reference to the loss of this vessel occurring [at] Wick is misleading.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2007.
Loss (5 March 1872)
Castletown, Wick, 8th Mar., the BINN (smack), of this port, from Castlehill to Portsoy, with pavement, stranded in going out of Castlehill, 5th Mar.: crew, sails, rigging, &c., saved: the vessel fills with the tide, and is likely to become a wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,376, London, Thursday March 13 1873.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3951).
(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 5 March 1873). Binn: this vessel stranded at Castlehill, Wick, and [was] expected [to become a] wreck.
Registration: Banff. Built 1872. 22grt. Length: 15m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 25.33 W3 4.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (10 May 2007)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The reference to the loss of this vessel occurring [at] Wick is misleading.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13334
Name : BINN
Latitude : 582520
Longitude : 30430
Date Built : 1872
Registration : BANFF
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 22
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 15
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 5
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1873
Comment : Stranded at Castlehill, Wick and expected wreck.
Cargo : PAVEMENT
