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Catherine: Dunnet Sands, Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Catherine: Dunnet Sands, Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) North Sea; Orkney; Catherine Hodges
Canmore ID 284507
Site Number ND26NW 8016
NGR ND 21 69
NGR Description ND c. 21 69
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND26NW 8016 c. 21 69
N58 36 W3 22
NLO: Dunnet Head [name: ND 203 768]
Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheets or ND27SW.
Thurso, ---. [recd., 21st, per E.T. at 9.45]. The CATHERINE, of Aberystwith, Hodges, from Runcorn to Charlestown, has been stranded on Dunnet Sands, and is full of water, with her keel broken: cargo (salt) lost.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,185, London, Wednesday September 21 [1859].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9732).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Dunnet Sands are not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name may be taken to apply to the extensive sands that extend from ND 216 709 to ND 204 683, around the SE side of Dunnet Bay.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), possibly suggesting her successful recovery, although the reported breaking of her 'keel' (back) makes this appear improbable.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 November 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5244
Name : CATHERINE HODGES
Latitude : 583630
Longitude : 32100
Date Built : 1842
Registration : ABERYSTWYTH
Type : SCHOONER
Tonnage : 97
Tonnage Code : R
Position : All Gone
Loss Day : 18
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1859
Comment : Foundered off and then ashore on Dunnet Sands. Likely wreck but AG
Cargo : SALT
