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Star: East Sutor, Inner Moray Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Star: East Sutor, Inner Moray Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) East Sutor Rock; 'near Cromarty'; Sutors Of Cromarty; Firth Of Cromarty; Cromarty Firth; North Sea; Star
Canmore ID 285448
Site Number NH86NW 8012
NGR NH 82 67
NGR Description NH c. 81 67
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285448
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH86NW 8012 c. 81 67
N57 41 W4 0.0
NLO: Cromarty Firth [name centred NH 69 67]
Cromarty [name: NH 786 677]
Sutors of Cromarty [name: NH 807 671]
Sutors Stacks [name: NH 812 670].
Formerly entered as Unlocated.
Cromarty, 27th Jan. The STAR (schr.), of Sunderland, with coals, was stranded near here at 12.30 p.m. to-day: vessel and cargo expected to be totally lost: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,473, London, Tuesday, January 29 1867.
Inverness, 31st Jan. The STAR, of Sunderland, which went ashore on the East Sutor rocks 27th Jan., was bound to Lossiemouth, Woodford, master: the vessel has become a total wreck.
Source: LL, No. 16,477, London, Saturday, February 2 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11186).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 27 January 1867). Star: this vessel was wrecked on East Sutor Rock, near Cromarty. Capt. Woodford.
Registration: Sunderland.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.00 W4 0.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. East Sutor Rock is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the East Sutor is presumably to the taken as that to the S of the entrance to the Cromarty Firth, to the E of Cromarty itself.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 December 2006.
Loss (27 January 1867)
Cromarty, 27th Jan. The STAR (schr.), of Sunderland, with coals, was stranded near here at 12.30 p.m. to-day: vessel and cargo expected to be totally lost: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,473, London, Tuesday, January 29 1867.
Inverness, 31st Jan. The STAR, of Sunderland, which went ashore on the East Sutor rocks 27th Jan., was bound to Lossiemouth, Woodford, master: the vessel has become a total wreck.
Source: LL, No. 16,477, London, Saturday, February 2 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11186).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 27 January 1867). Star: this vessel was wrecked on East Sutor Rock, near Cromarty. Capt. Woodford.
Registration: Sunderland.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.00 W4 0.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (27 December 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. East Sutor Rock is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the East Sutor is presumably to the taken as that to the S of the entrance to the Cromarty Firth, to the E of Cromarty itself.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 December 2006.
Named Location (Nlo) (27 December 2006)
NLO: Cromarty Firth [name centred NH 69 67]
Cromarty [name: NH 786 677]
Sutors of Cromarty [name: NH 807 671]
Sutors Stacks [name: NH 812 670].
Formerly entered as Unlocated.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11758
Name : STAR
Latitude : 574100
Longitude : 40000
Registration : SUNDERLAND
Type : SCHOONER
Loss Day : 27
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1867
Comment : Wrecked on East Sutor Rock, near Cromarty. Capt. Woodford
Cargo : COAL
