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Lifeboat: Cromarty Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Lifeboat: Cromarty Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near Cromarty'; Firth Of Cromarty; Black Isle; Lifeboat
Canmore ID 285336
Site Number NH76NE 8020
NGR NH 78 68
NGR Description NH c. 78 68
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH76NE 8020 c. 78 67
N57 41 W4 3
NLO: Cromarty [name: NH 786 677]
Cromarty Firth [name centred NH 69 67].
See also NH76NE 8019.
Not to be confused with NC90SW 8006.
Cromarty, 24th Feb. The EXPRESS (sloop), of Wick, with herrings, and the LIFEBOAT (schr.), of Scarboro', from Dingwall to Newcastle, with staves, were stranded near here this evening: crews saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,497, London, Tuesday, February 26 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11206).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of staves: date of loss cited as 24 February 1867). Lifeboat: this vessel stranded near Cromarty.
Registration: Scarborough.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.00 W4 1.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 December 2006.
Loss (24 February 1867)
Cromarty, 24th Feb. The EXPRESS (sloop), of Wick, with herrings, and the LIFEBOAT (schr.), of Scarboro', from Dingwall to Newcastle, with staves, were stranded near here this evening: crews saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,497, London, Tuesday, February 26 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11206).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of staves: date of loss cited as 24 February 1867). Lifeboat: this vessel stranded near Cromarty. Registration: Scarborough.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.00 W4 1.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (19 December 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 December 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11768
Name : LIFEBOAT
Latitude : 574100
Longitude : 40100
Registration : SCARBOROUGH
Type : SCHOONER
Loss Day : 24
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1867
Comment : Stranded near Cromarty
Cargo : STAVES
