Unknown: Sandwood, North Minch
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Sandwood, North Minch
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sandford; Sandwood Bay; Cape Wrath; Atlantic
Canmore ID 276794
Site Number NC26NW 8005
NGR NC 22 65
NGR Description NC c. 22 65
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/276794
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC26NW 8005 c. 22 65
N58 32 W5 3
NLO: Sandwood Bay [name centred NC 225 662]
Sandwood Loch [name centred NC 228 642]
Sandwood [name: NC 220 641]
Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].
See also NC27NE 8023.
Possibly on map sheet NC26SW.
Cape Wrath, 24th Oct. 'An Inverness schooner, with wool, from Little Ferry, is on shore at Sandford [Sandwood]: master and one of the crew drowned.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9872, London, Monday November 3 1845.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8014).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of wood: date of loss cited as 20 October 1845). Unknown: this vessel was wrecked at Sandwood, near Cape Wrath.
Registration: Inverness.
(Location of loss cited as N58 32.50 W5 3.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Sandford is not noted as such near Cape Wrath on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The entry presumably describes a stranding at Sandwood. Sandwood Bay is an extensive, sand-fringed and gently-curving indentation, which extends from NC c. 231 670 to NC c. 228 651.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 November 2004.
