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Matilda: Loch Broom

Brig (19th Century)

Site Name Matilda: Loch Broom

Classification Brig (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Corgach; Lochbroom; North Minch

Canmore ID 269681

Site Number NH19SE 8001

NGR NH

NGR Description Unlocated

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Maritime - Highland
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NH19SE 8001 unlocated

NLO: Loch Broom [name centred NH 10 93].

Possibly on map sheets or NH19SW.

Ullapool, March 27, 9.30 p.m., MATILDA brig, Thomasen, from Mandal (Norway) for Liverpool (props), was driven ashore at Corgach (Lochbroom), March 24, and is a total wreck: crew saved: all papers lost.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,879, London, Tuesday March 29 [1881].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5157).

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. The location of Corgach cannot be established from the available map evidence.

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 December 2004.

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