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Gustav Pederson: Faraid Head, Atlantic

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Gustav Pederson: Faraid Head, Atlantic

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Farout Head; Loch Eriboll; Cape Wrath; Pentland Firth; Gustav Pederson

Canmore ID 284087

Site Number NC37SE 8005

NGR NC 392 719

NGR Description NC c. 392 719

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NC37SE 8005 c. 392 719

N58 36.3 W4 46.1

NLO: Faraid Head [name: NC 392 719]

Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]

Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].

Loch Eribol, 1st May. A small Norwegian schooner, laden with staves and billet wood, has come ashore, bottom up, at Farout [Faraid] Head: name on life buoy, 'GUSTAV PEDERSON, Mandal': crew supposed to have perished.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,757, London, Friday May 7 1858.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9507).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of staves: date of loss cited as 1 May 1858). Gustav Pederson: this vessel stranded on Farout [Faraid] Head, Cape Wrath. Registration: Mandal.

(Location of loss cited as N58 37.33 W4 46.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 October 2006.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 5163

Name : GUSTAV PEDERSON

Latitude : 583720

Longitude : 44600

Registration : MANDAL

Type : SCHOONER

Loss Day : 1

Loss Month : 5

Loss Year : 1858

Comment : Stranded Farout Head, Cape Wrath

Cargo : STAVES

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