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Fair Kathleen: North Sutor, Cromarty Firth
Barque (19th Century)
Site Name Fair Kathleen: North Sutor, Cromarty Firth
Classification Barque (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Inner Moray Firth; Firth Of Cromarty; Sutors Of Cromarty; 'on The Point Of [the] North Sutter'; Fair Kathleen
Canmore ID 284580
Site Number NH86NW 8011
NGR NH 815 685
NGR Description NH c. 815 685
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/284580
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH86NW 8011 c. 815 687
N57 41.6 W3 59.3
NLO: Cromarty Firth [name centred NH 69 67]
North Sutor [name: NH 815 687]
Cromarty [name: NH 786 677].
Cromarty, 16th Jan. The FAIR KATHLEEN (barque), Huett, of and for Shields, from Liverpool, with salt, went ashore last night, on the point of [the] North Sutter [Sutor]: her quarter is now out of her and she is likely to become a total wreck in a few hours: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,287, London, Wednesday January 18 1860.
Cromarty, 20th Jan. The masts, spars, rigging, sails, and other stores have been saved from the FAIR KATHLEEN, Huett, from Liverpool to Shields, with salt, wrecked near this place 15th Jan. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9794).
(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 15 January 1860). Fair Kathleen: this vessel stranded at Sutors of Cromarty. Capt. Smith (Capt. Huett?).
Registration: North Shields. Built 1846. 289 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.00 W4 0.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 November 2006.
Loss (15 January 1860)
Cromarty, 16th Jan. The FAIR KATHLEEN (barque), Huett, of and for Shields, from Liverpool, with salt, went ashore last night, on the point of [the] North Sutter [Sutor]: her quarter is now out of her and she is likely to become a total wreck in a few hours: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,287, London, Wednesday January 18 1860.
Cromarty, 20th Jan. The masts, spars, rigging, sails, and other stores have been saved from the FAIR KATHLEEN, Huett, from Liverpool to Shields, with salt, wrecked near this place 15th Jan. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9794).
(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 15 January 1860). Fair Kathleen: this vessel stranded at Sutors of Cromarty. Capt. Smith (Capt. Huett?).
Registration: North Shields. Built 1846. 289 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.00 W4 0.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (20 November 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 November 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10446
Name : FAIR KATHLEEN
Latitude : 574100
Longitude : 40000
Date Built : 1846
Registration : NORTH SHIELDS
Type : BARQUE (WOOD)
Tonnage : 289
Tonnage Code : R
Loss Day : 15
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1860
Comment : Stranded at Sutors of Cromarty. Capt. Smith (Capt. Huett?)
Cargo : SALT
