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Hart: Muirtown, Inverness, Caledonian Canal
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Hart: Muirtown, Inverness, Caledonian Canal
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Nearly Opposite The Smithy Below Muirtown Bridge'; Beauly Firth
Canmore ID 285500
Site Number NH64NE 8015
NGR NH 650 465
NGR Description NH c. 650 465
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH64NE 8015 c. 653 452
N57 28.6 W4 14.8
NLO: Inverness [name: NH 66 45].
Possibly on map sheet NH64SE.
Inverness, 14th Jan. The HART (Irish smack), with potatoes, went down in the [Caledonian] Canal, nearly opposite the Smithy below Muirtown Bridge, and after sinking, heeled over with her mast in the water.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 15,528, London, Saturday, January 16 [1864].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10542).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The 'Smithy below Muirtown Bridge' is presumably that (NH64NW 27.01) at NH 64903 46518
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 December 2006.
Evidence Of Loss (14 January 1864)
Inverness, 14th Jan. The HART (Irish smack), with potatoes, went down in the [Caledonian] Canal, nearly opposite the Smithy below Muirtown Bridge, and after sinking, heeled over with her mast in the water.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 15,528, London, Saturday, January 16 [1864].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10542).
Note (29 December 2006)
The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially tentative.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 December 2006.
