Scheduled Maintenance
Please be advised that this website will undergo scheduled maintenance on the following dates: •
Tuesday 3rd December 11:00-15:00
During these times, some services may be temporarily unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Progress: Clachnaharry Sea Lock, Beauly Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Progress: Clachnaharry Sea Lock, Beauly Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Caledonian Canal; Inverness; Kessock Narrows; Moray Firth
Canmore ID 269941
Site Number NH64NW 8003
NGR NH 644 467
NGR Description NH c. 644 467
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/269941
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH64NW 8003 c. 644 467
N57 29.4 W4 15.7
NLO: Inverness [name: NH 665 455].
See also NH64NW 8002.
Inverness, April 2, 1 p.m., schooner REGENT, of Inverness, and PROGRESS, of Castletown, got jammed together when entering sea-lock Clachnaharry, Caledonian Canal, this morning, and on tide receding both vessels got very much damaged and strained and are likely to become total wrecks. REGENT with coals, from Warkworth, and PROGRESS, with potatoes, from Cromarty.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,884, London, Monday April 4 1881.
Inverness, April 2, REGENT, McGregor, from Warkworth for Inverness, and PROGRESS, Corbent, fom Cromarty for Cardiff, which got jammed together this morning on entering the sea lock of the Caledonian Canal, filled with water as the tide rose, and, consequently, will have to be discharged by tide work before removal.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,885, London, Tuesday April 5 1881.
Inverness, April 23, 8.55 p.m., the schooners PROGRESS and REGENT, which were damaged and sunk on April 2, in the sea lock of Caledonian Canal, have been raised this day and placed on the beach about 50 yards west side entrance of canal for survey. [Report received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5166).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of her successful recovery. Clachnaharry sea lock (NH64NW 28.00) is at NH 6447 4674.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 January 2005.
Field Visit (2013)
There was no evidence of the two wrecks, Regent and Progress, and the lock keeper reports that even at very low tides they are not to be seen. However a photograph on “Am baile” website http://www.ambaile.org.uk/en/item/item_photograph.jsp?item_id=1792 shows them in collision within the confines of the lock and has the caption; 1881 - Two schooners blocking the Caledonian Canal at Clachnaharry, Inverness, 1881. The 'Regent', which was registered in Inverness, was bound for Cardiff while the 'Progress', from the Isle of Man was carrying coal to Muirtown.
Visited by Scottish Canals Recording Project (MM), 2013
