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Leith Packet: Little Skerry, Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Leith Packet: Little Skerry, Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Little Pentland Skerry; North Sea; Leith Packet
Canmore ID 273843
Site Number ND47NE 8047
NGR ND 473 766
NGR Description ND c. 473 766
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/273843
- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND47NE 8047 c. 473 766
N58 40.5 W2 54.5
NLO: Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Little Skerry [name centred ND 473 766]
Pentland Skerries [name centred ND 470 775].
Huna, 19th Sept. A schooner was observed upon the Little Pentland Skerry this morning: boats have gone to her from the island of Strana [Stroma], and she is dismantled.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,876, London, Thursday September 23 [1858].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9541).
Liverpool, 25th Sept. The LEITH PACKET (schr.), trading between Leith and Stromness, went ashore on the Little Skerry on the 18th Sept., having been previously abandoned: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,879, London, Monday September 27 1858.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9543).
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 18 September 1858). Leith Packet: this vessel stranded on Little Skerry, Pentland Skerries.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.5 W2 54.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 August 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5147
Name : LEITH PACKET
Latitude : 584030
Longitude : 25430
Type : SCHOONER
Loss Day : 18
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1858
Comment : Stranded Little Skerry, Pentland Skerries
