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Unknown: Atlantic
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Atlantic
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near Cape Wrath'; Pentland Firth
Canmore ID 283185
Site Number NC27NE 8025
NGR NC
NGR Description Unlocated
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/283185
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC27NE 8025 unlocated
NLO: Cape Wrath [name: ND 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Leith, 6th Mar. It is reported that a large ship is on shore near Cape Wrath, and it is supposed the whole crew have perished. Thirteen bodies said to have washed up: some bales of wool are also reported to have been cast ashore, from which it is supposed that the vessel was homeward bound from Australia.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,775, London, Wednesday March 7 1855.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9108).
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 October 2006.
