Unknown: Dornoch Firth
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Dornoch Firth
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'A Little To The West Of Tain'; 'a Little West Of Tain'; Inner Moray Firth
Canmore ID 264291
Site Number NH78SE 8003
NGR NH 77 84
NGR Description NH c. 77 84
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH78SE 8003 c. 77 83
N57 49 W4 4
NLO: Tain [name: NH 778 822]
Dornoch [name: NH 798 895]
Dornoch Firth [name centred NH 87 89].
Dundee, 18th Dec., a small sloop from Portmahomack, trading in coal between Bora [Brora] and Dornoch, was dashed ashore during the gale of 15th Dec., a little to the west of Tain, and wrecked: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,617, London, Saturday December 20 [1873].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4027).
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 15 December 1873). Unknown: this vessel was wrecked a little West of Tain.
Registration: Portmahomack.
(Location of loss cited as N57 50.00 W4 5.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location suggested this record is essentially arbitrary.
The date of loss cited by Whittaker differs from that cited in the primary account of the loss. The latter is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 September 2004.
Loss (18 December 1873)
Dundee, 18th Dec., a small sloop from Portmahomack, trading in coal between Bora [Brora] and Dornoch, was dashed ashore during the gale of 15th Dec., a little to the west of Tain, and wrecked: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,617, London, Saturday December 20 [1873].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4027).
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 15 December 1873). Unknown: this vessel was wrecked a little West of Tain.
Registration: Portmahomack.
(Location of loss cited as N57 50.00 W4 5.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (6 September 2004)
The location suggested this record is essentially arbitrary.
The date of loss cited by Whittaker differs from that cited in the primary account of the loss. The latter is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 September 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 9950
Name : UNKNOWN 1873
Latitude : 575000
Longitude : 40500
Registration : PORTMAHOMACK
Type : SLOOP
Loss Day : 15
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1873
Comment : Wrecked a little west of Tain.
