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Express: Skerra Bay, Pentland Firth
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Express: Skerra Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Portskerra; Tongue; North Sea; Express
Canmore ID 285492
Site Number NC86NE 8015
NGR NC 870 661
NGR Description NC c. 870 661
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285492
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC86NE 8015 c. 870 661
N58 34.1 W3 56.6
NLO: Portskerra [name: NC 877 657]
Tongue Bay [name centred NC 60 61]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Tongue, 19th June. The EXPRESS (smack), of Wick, McMay, from Thurso to this place, with wood, got on shore, 17th June, in Skerra Bay, during a strong gale: crew and cargo saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,911, London, Friday, June 26 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11467).
(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 17 June 1868). Express: this vessel stranded at Skerra Bay, near Tongue. Capt. McKay. All gone? See 2/1886.
Registration: Wick.
(Location of loss cited as N58 32.67 W4 18.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Skerra Bay is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the bay in front of Portskerra village.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 November 2006.
Loss (17 June 1868)
Tongue, 19th June. The EXPRESS (smack), of Wick, McMay, from Thurso to this place, with wood, got on shore, 17th June, in Skerra Bay, during a strong gale: crew and cargo saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,911, London, Friday, June 26 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11467).
(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 17 June 1868). Express: this vessel stranded at Skerra Bay, near Tongue. Capt. McKay. All gone? See 2/1886.
Registration: Wick.
(Location of loss cited as N58 32.67 W4 18.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (28 November 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Skerra Bay is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the bay in front of Portskerra village.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 November 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11898
Name : EXPRESS
Latitude : 583240
Longitude : 41800
Registration : WICK
Type : SMACK
Loss Day : 17
Loss Month : 6
Loss Year : 1868
Comment : Stranded at Skerra Bay, near Tongue. Capt. McKay AG? See 2/1886
