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