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Three Brothers: Sandwood Bay, North Minch
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Three Brothers: Sandwood Bay, North Minch
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Cape Wrath; Atlantic; Three Brothers
Canmore ID 284325
Site Number NC26NW 8009
NGR NC 22 66
NGR Description NC c. 22 66
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC26NW 8009 c. 22 66
N58 33 W5 4
NLO: Sandwood Bay [name centred NC 225 662]
Sandwood Loch [name centred NC 228 642]
Sandwood [name: NC 220 641]
Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].
Possibly on map sheet NC26SW.
Sandwood Bay, (about 7 miles W. of Cape Wrath), 21st Dec. The THREE BROTHERS (brig), of Ardrossan, Irvine, from Dalhousie, New Brunswick, to Chester, with deals and spars, is on shore in this bay, and likely to be come a total wreck: crew saved, and the greater part of the cargo expected to be saved. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9596).
(Classified as brig: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 20 December 1858). Three Brothers: this vessel was lost at Sandwood Bay, Sutherland. {Prize: 1803].
Registration: Irvine. 138 tons burthern. Length: 22m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 32.5 W5 3.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Sandwood Bay is an extensive, sand-fringed and gently-curving indentation, which extends from NC c. 231 670 to NC c. 228 651.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 November 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 15898
Name : THREE BROTHERS
Latitude : 583230
Longitude : 50330
Registration : IRVINE
Type : BRIG
Tonnage : 138
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 22
Beam : 4
Loss Day : 20
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1858
Comment : Lost at Sandwood Bay, Sutherland. [Prize:1803]
