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Mary: Scourie, North Minch

Smack (19th Century)

Site Name Mary: Scourie, North Minch

Classification Smack (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Scourie Bay; 'near Wick'; Atlantic; Mary

Canmore ID 284957

Site Number NC14NW 8006

NGR NC 14 45

NGR Description NC c. 14 45

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

NC14NW 8006 c. 14 45

N58 21 W5 11

NLO: Scourie [name: NC 157 447]

Scourie Bay [name centred NC 145 454]

Wick [name: ND 361 508].

Possibly on map sheets NC14NE, or NC14SE.

Scourie, (near Wick), 10th Oct. The MARY (smack), of Inverness, McLeod, from Portsoy to Rispond and this place, with timber, dragged her anchor and went ashore here 3rd Oct.: cargo landed: crew saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,521, London, Thursday October 18 1860.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9933).

(Classified as smack, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 3 October 1861). Mary: this vessel stranded at Scourie, Wick. Cargo saved.

Registration: Inverness. Built 1845. 18 tons burthern. Length: 9m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 26.00 W3 3.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this loss is essentially tentative. The cited location at 'Scourie, (near Wick)' is evidently accepted by Whittaker, but is highly misleading.

The date of loss that is cited in the primary account differs from that cited by Whittaker. The former is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 November 2006.

Activities

Loss (3 October 1860)

Scourie, (near Wick), 10th Oct. The MARY (smack), of Inverness, McLeod, from Portsoy to Rispond and this place, with timber, dragged her anchor and went ashore here 3rd Oct.: cargo landed: crew saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,521, London, Thursday October 18 1860.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9933).

(Classified as smack, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 3 October 1861). Mary: this vessel stranded at Scourie, Wick. Cargo saved.

Registration: Inverness. Built 1845. 18 tons burthern. Length: 9m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 26.00 W3 3.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (30 November 2006)

The location assigned to this loss is essentially tentative. The cited location at 'Scourie, (near Wick)' is evidently accepted by Whittaker, but is highly misleading.

The date of loss that is cited in the primary account differs from that cited by Whittaker. The former is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 November 2006.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 5197

Name : MARY

Latitude : 582600

Longitude : 30300

Date Built : 1845

Registration : INVERNESS

Type : SMACK

Tonnage : 18

Tonnage Code : B

Length : 9

Beam : 4

Loss Day : 3

Loss Month : 10

Loss Year : 1861

Comment : Stranded at Scourie, Wick. Cargo saved

Cargo : TIMBER

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