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Iris: North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Iris: North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Clythe Head'; Clyth
Canmore ID 283811
Site Number ND23NE 8010
NGR ND
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND23NE 8010 unlocated
NLO: Clyth Mains [name: ND 280 362].
Wick, 17th Apl. A board with IRIS, in gilt letters, blue painted, and carved with a representation of a spear running along the boards, was picked up on the 12th Apl., off Clythe [Clyth] Head.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,433, London, Tuesday April 21 1857.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9364).
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are arbitrary, being derived from the reported location of discovery of wreckage. The vessel may have foundered offshore, possibluy beyond Scottish waters. Clyth Head is not noted on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. Clythness (Ousbacky) Lighthouse (ND23NE 29) is at ND 2906 3629.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 October 2006.
