Beaufort Castle: Faraid Head, Atlantic

NC37SE 8004 c. 392 719

N58 36.3 W4 46.1

NLO: Faraid Head [name: NC 392 719]

Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

A vessel laden with tallow and hemp, supposed to be the BEAUFORT CASTLE of London, Gay, from Petersburg to Dublin, was totally lost with all the crew, near Loch Erebol [Eribol], on the night of the 15th inst., during a violent gale at N.N.W..

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5130, London, Friday November 29 1816

The BEAUFOY CASTLE, of London, Gay, from Petersburg to Dublin, was totally lost with all the crew on the 15th ult., near Loch Erebol [Eribol].

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5132, London, Friday December 6 1816

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5898).

(No classification specified, but cargo cited as tallow and hemp, and date of loss as 15 November 1816). Beaufoy Castle, or possibly Beaufort Castle: this vessel was wrecked at Farout [Faraid] Head, near Loch Erriboll [Erribol]. Capt. Gray.

Registration: London.

(Location of loss cited as N58 37.33 W4 46.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 November 2004.