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Unknown: Sandside Bay, Pentland Firth

Craft (19th Century)

Site Name Unknown: Sandside Bay, Pentland Firth

Classification Craft (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Thurso; North Sea

Canmore ID 277239

Site Number NC96NE 8011

NGR NC 963 657

NGR Description NC c. 963 657

Datum Datum not recorded

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Maritime - Highland
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NC96NE 8011 c. 963 657

N58 34 W3 47

NLO: Sandside Bay [name: ND 963 657]

Thurso [name: ND 115 687]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

For the discovery of wreckage (possibly from this wreck), see ND07SW 8008.

Thurso, 10th Sept. Part of the masts of a vessel standing out of the water, has been discovered in Sandside Bay.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,453, London, Friday September 17 1847.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8216).

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998),

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 November 2005.

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