Ranger: North Sea
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Ranger: North Sea
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'North Of Brora'; Ranger
Canmore ID 285461
Site Number NC90NW 8001
NGR NC 91 06
NGR Description NC c. 91 06
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285461
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC90NW 8001 unlocated
NLO: Brora [name: NC 909 040].
Possibly on map sheet NC90SW.
Brora, 7th Dec. The RANGER (smack), of Tain, McLeod, from Invergordon to Fearn, with railway sleepers, was run ashore North of this place 3rd Dec., in a leaky state, is embedded in the sand, and the tide ebbs and flows in her: spars, sails, &c., landed, and cargo discharging.
Source: LL, No. 15,498, London, Friday, December 11 1863.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10497).
(Classified as wooden wherry, with cargo of railway sleepers: date of loss cited as 3 December 1863). Ranger: this vessel stranded North of Brora. Capt. McLeod.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1863. 19grt. Length: 13m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 2.00 W3 50.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified. That cited in the original account is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 December 2006.
Loss (3 December 1863)
Brora, 7th Dec. The RANGER (smack), of Tain, McLeod, from Invergordon to Fearn, with railway sleepers, was run ashore North of this place 3rd Dec., in a leaky state, is embedded in the sand, and the tide ebbs and flows in her: spars, sails, &c., landed, and cargo discharging.
Source: LL, No. 15,498, London, Friday, December 11 1863.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10497).
(Classified as wooden wherry, with cargo of railway sleepers: date of loss cited as 3 December 1863). Ranger: this vessel stranded North of Brora. Capt. McLeod.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1863. 19grt. Length: 13m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 2.00 W3 50.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (27 December 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified. That cited in the original account is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 December 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11405
Name : RANGER
Latitude : 580200
Longitude : 35000
Date Built : 1863
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : WHERRY (WOOD)
Tonnage : 19
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 13
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 3
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1863
Comment : Stranded north of Brora. Capt. McLeod
Cargo : RAILWAY SLEEPERS
