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Unknown: Stroma, Pentland Firth
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Stroma, Pentland Firth
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Island Of Stroma; North Sea
Canmore ID 283970
Site Number ND37NE 8037
NGR ND 35 75
NGR Description ND c. 35 77
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND37NE 8037 c. 35 77
N58 40 W3 7
NLO: Island of Stroma [name: ND 35 77]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheet ND37NW.
Wick, 4th Sept. The following reports has been received from the Island of Stroma, Portland [Pentland]: - Washed ashore on Stroma, 31st Aug., part of a vessel's stern, much broken, first letter on which was 'H' or 'M', second 'N', third either 'D', 'B', or 'R'. The letters were broken across.
Source: LL, No. 16,974, London, Tuesday, September 8 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11484).
(No classification or cargo specified: date cited as 31 August 1868). Unknown: this vessel was wrecked on Stroma.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.5 W3 8.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The date cited by Whittaker is presumably that of the reported discovery of wreckage.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 October 2006.
Evidence Of Loss (31 August 1868)
Wick, 4th Sept. The following reports has been received from the Island of Stroma, Portland [Pentland]: - Washed ashore on Stroma, 31st Aug., part of a vessel's stern, much broken, first letter on which was 'H' or 'M', second 'N', third either 'D', 'B', or 'R'. The letters were broken across.
Source: LL, No. 16,974, London, Tuesday, September 8 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11484).
(No classification or cargo specified: date cited as 31 August 1868). Unknown: this vessel was wrecked on Stroma.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.5 W3 8.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (27 October 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The date cited by Whittaker is presumably that of the reported discovery of wreckage.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 October 2006.
