Belfast: Armadale, Pentland Firth
Barque (19th Century)
Site Name Belfast: Armadale, Pentland Firth
Classification Barque (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Thurso; Belfast
Canmore ID 276746
Site Number NC76NE 8001
NGR NC 788 652
NGR Description NC c. 78 65
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC76NE 8001 c. 78 65
N58 33 W4 6
NLO: Armadale [name: NC 787 647]
Armadale Bay [name centred NC 792 651]
Thurso [name: ND 115 687].
Possibly on map sheet NC76SE.
Thurso, 18th Mar. 'During a severe gale from NE to N & NW on the night of the 16th inst., the BELFAST, Clark, of Liverpool, bound to Monte Video [Montevideo, Argentina], was driven on shore at Armadale: master, chief mate, and seven men drowned.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9991, London, Monday March 23 1846.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8073).
(Classified as barque, with cargo of coal and firearms: date of loss cited as 16 March 1846). Belfast: this vessel was wrecked at Armadale, Pentland Firth. Capt. Clark.
Registration: Liverpool. Built 1839. 297 tons burthern.
(Location of loss cited as N58 33.5 W4 5.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
This loss is assigned to the vicinity of Armadale on the Pentland Firth, rather than the place of the same name on the Sleat Peninsula (Sound of Sleat), Skye. The report of the loss at Thurso is considered significant in this regard, and is in accordance with the location cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 October 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6512
Name : BELFAST
Latitude : 583330
Longitude : 40500
Date Built : 1839
Registration : LIVERPOOL
Type : BARQUE
Tonnage : 297
Tonnage Code : B
Loss Day : 16
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1846
Comment : Wrecked at Armadale, Pentland Firth. Capt. Clark
Cargo : COAL, FIREARMS