Brothers: The Spur, Murkle Bay, Pentland Firth
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Brothers: The Spur, Murkle Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Spur Of Murkle; Thurso; North Sea
Canmore ID 273804
Site Number ND17SE 8005
NGR ND 170 700
NGR Description ND c. 170 700
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND17SE 8005 c. 170 700
N58 36.6 W3 25.7
NLO: Murkle Bay [name centred ND 171 694]
West Murkle [name: ND 157 695]
East Murkle [name: ND 173 687]
Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
The Spur [name: ND 170 700].
Possibly on map sheet ND16NE.
Record number formerly cited in error as ND17SE 8007.
Wick, 30th Mar. The BROTHERS, of this place, Dunnet, from Castlehill Creek, Scrabster, to Leith, with grain, ran aground on the Spur of Murkle on the night of the 28th March, and remains much injured: part of the cargo has been discharged very considerably damaged.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,419, London, Friday April 3 1857.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9355).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her successful recovery.
The Spur forms a prominent area of exposed rock on the N side of Murkle Bay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 August 2005.
