Prosperous: Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Prosperous: Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'To The West Of Bishop's Castle, Thurso'; Scrabster; Thurso Bay; Prosperous
Canmore ID 276748
Site Number ND16NW 8048
NGR ND 10 69
NGR Description ND c. 10 69
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND16NW 8048 c. 10 69
N58 36 W3 33
NLO: Scrabster [name: ND 102 702]
Thurso [name: ND 115 687].
Possibly on map sheet ND17SW.
See also ND17SW 8037.
Thurso, 18th Mar. 'The sloop DIANA, Brown, of Arbroath, bound to Dundee, and the PROSPEROUS, Robertson, of Stornoway, were driven on shore at Scrabster the same evening: master and two men of the former drowned: crew of the latter saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9991, London, Monday March 23 1846.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8075).
(Classified as sloop, in ballast: date of loss cited as 16 March 1846). Prosperous: this vessel was wrecked to the west of Bishop's Castle, Thurso. Capt. Robertson.
Registration: Stornoway. Built 1831. 20 tons burthern. Length: 11m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 36.0 W3 32.33).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Whittaker places the loss 'to the west of Bishop's Castle, Thurso' [presumably Bishop's Castle or Scrabster Castle, Thurso [ND16NW 3, at ND 1068 6915].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 November 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 9891
Name : PROSPEROUS
Latitude : 583600
Longitude : 33220
Date Built : 1831
Registration : STORNOWAY
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 20
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 11
Beam : 4
Loss Day : 16
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1846
Comment : Wrecked to the west of Bishop's Castle, Thurso. Capt. Robertson
Cargo : BALLAST
