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Gold Digger: Helmsdale Harbour, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Gold Digger: Helmsdale Harbour, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) River Helmsdale
Canmore ID 266205
Site Number ND01NW 8009
NGR ND 029 151
NGR Description ND c. 029 151
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND01NW 8009 c. 029 151
N58 6.9 W3 38.9
NLO: Helmsdale [name: ND 028 153].
Glasgow, 6th Mar., the GOLD DIGGER (fishing boat), Innes, while attempting to take the harbour at Helmsdale, 4th Mar., got her rudder unshipped, and was driven by the gale against the wooden jetty on the W side, which she crushed through: crew and materials saved, but the vessel will be useless.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,305, London, Wednesday March 8 [1876].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4373).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Helmsdale Harbour (ND01NW 61.00) is centred at ND 03002 15154.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 October 2004.
