Elizabeth: North Sea
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Elizabeth: North Sea
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Pentland Firth; Moray Firth; 'between Thurso And Portsoy'; Elizabeth
Canmore ID 285427
Site Number ND42SW 8002
NGR ND 41 20
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285427
- Council Maritime
- Parish Maritime - Offshore
- Former Region Not Applicable
- Former District Not Applicable
- Former County Not Applicable
ND42SW 8002 unlocated
NLO: Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Portsoy [name: NJ 590 665]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]..
Formerly entered as ND90SE 8007 (unlocated).
Possibly within Maritime - Aberdeenshire.
Scrabster, 27th Nov. The ELIZABETH (smack), of Inverness, Morrison, from Thurso to Portsoy, with flagstones, sprung a leak 25th Nov., and sunk.
Source: LL, No. 16,113, London, Friday, December 1 1865.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10883).
(Classified as smack, with cargo of flagstones: date of loss cited as 25 November 1865). Elizabeth: this vessel foundered between Thurso and Portsoy.
Registration: Inverness.
(Location of loss cited as N58 10.00 W3 0.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area that is designated Maritime - Aberdeenshire.
This vessel evidently foundered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 December 2006.
Loss (25 November 1865)
Scrabster, 27th Nov. The ELIZABETH (smack), of Inverness, Morrison, from Thurso to Portsoy, with flagstones, sprung a leak 25th Nov., and sunk.
Source: LL, No. 16,113, London, Friday, December 1 1865.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10883).
(Classified as smack, with cargo of flagstones: date of loss cited as 25 November 1865). Elizabeth: this vessel foundered between Thurso and Portsoy.
Registration: Inverness.
(Location of loss cited as N58 10.00 W3 0.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (22 December 2006)
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area that is designated Maritime - Aberdeenshire.
This vessel evidently foundered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 December 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11635
Name : ELIZABETH
Latitude : 581000
Longitude : 30000
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SMACK
Loss Day : 25
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1865
Comment : Foundered between Thurso and Portsoy
Cargo : FLAGSTONES
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