Daniel Cotton: Skirza Head, North Sea
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Daniel Cotton: Skirza Head, North Sea
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Skerza Head; 'on The Skerries'; Duncansby Head; Freswick Bay
Canmore ID 275374
Site Number ND36NE 8019
NGR ND 393 680
NGR Description ND c. 393 680
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND36NE 8019 c. 393 680
N58 35.8 W3 2.7
NLO: Skirza Head [name: ND 393 680]
Freswick Bay [name centred ND 384 675]
Duncansby Head [name: ND 405 733].
Skerza [Skirza] Head, 2nd Oct. 'A vessel, (with potash and salt) supposed to be the brig DANIEL COTTON, is ashore on the Skerries, and full of water.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 8915, London, Thursday October 6 1842.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7710).
Skerza [Skirza] Head, 2nd Oct. 'Several casks of oil are reported to have been picked up on the coast.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 8915, London, Thursday October 6 1842.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7711).
The oil casks (cited as no. 7711) are probably derived from this vessel.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 September 2005.
NMRS, MS/829/71.
