Try: Loch Eriboll, Atlantic
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Try: Loch Eriboll, Atlantic
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On A Sunken Rock... In The Middle Of The Loch'; Pentland Firth; Try
Canmore ID 274425
Site Number NC45NW 8008
NGR NC 44 59
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/274425
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC45NW 8008 unlocated
NLO: Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheets NC45NW, NC45NE, NC45SW, NC45SE, or NC46SW.
Loch Erribol, Sept. 1. 'The TRY, Dorkin, from Wick to Newry, struck on a sunken rock yesterday, in the middle of the Loch, and immediately went down. Crew saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7193, London, Friday September 9 1836.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7179).
(Classified as brig: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 31 August 1836). Try: this vessel hit [a] rock and sank in the middle of Loch Eriboll. Capt. Dorkin.
Registration: Yarmouth. Built 1821. 87 tons burthern.
(Location of loss cited as N58 30.0 W4 40.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The reference to 'a sunken rock... in the middle of the Loch' may refer to any of several such obstructions.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 August 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 14566
Name : TRY
Latitude : 583000
Longitude : 44000
Date Built : 1821
Registration : YARMOUTH
Type : BRIG
Tonnage : 87
Tonnage Code : B
Loss Day : 31
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1836
Comment : Hit rock and sank in the middle of Loch Eriboll. Capt. Dorkin
