Oak: Dornoch Firth
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Oak: Dornoch Firth
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Portmahomack Bay; 'near Portmahomock'; In The Bay At Portmahomack'; Oak
Canmore ID 272633
Site Number NH98SW 8007
NGR NH 90 84
NGR Description NH c. 90 84
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH98SW 8007 c. 90 84
N57 50 W3 51
NLO: Portmahomack [name: NH 915 843]
Dornoch Firth [name centred NH 87 89].
Possibly on map sheets or NH98NW.
Leith, 17th Jan. 'The OAK, Annal, from this port to Inverness, was wrecked 11th inst., near Portmahomock [Portmahomack].'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6918, London, Tuesday January 21 1834.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6912).
(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 11 January 1834). Oak: this vessel was wrecked in the bay at Portmahomack. Capt. Annal.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1826. 72 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 50.25 W3 50.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of map sheets or NH98NW.
The location of loss ('in the bay at Portmahomack') that is cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 May 2005.
Loss (11 January 1834)
Leith, 17th Jan. 'The OAK, Annal, from this port to Inverness, was wrecked 11th inst., near Portmahomock [Portmahomack].'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6918, London, Tuesday January 21 1834.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6912).
(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 11 January 1834). Oak: this vessel was wrecked in the bay at Portmahomack. Capt. Annal.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1826. 72 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 50.25 W3 50.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (25 May 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of map sheets NS88SE or NH98NW.
The location of loss ('in the bay at Portmahomack') that is cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 May 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6625
Name : OAK
Latitude : 575015
Longitude : 35000
Date Built : 1826
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SMACK
Tonnage : 72
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 16
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 11
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1834
Comment : Wrecked in bay at Portmahomack. Capt. Annal
