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Caroline: North Minch
Brigantine (19th Century)
Site Name Caroline: North Minch
Classification Brigantine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Between Stornoway And Cape Wrath'; Caroline
Canmore ID 285502
Site Number NB84SE 8002
NGR NB
NGR Description Unlocated
Datum Unknown datum
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285502
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NB84SE 8002 unlocated
NLO: Stornoway [name: NB 425 330]
Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750].
Possibly within Maritime - Western Isles.
Stornoway, 2nd May [1864]. The CAROLINE (Dan. brgtne.), from Liverpool to Copenhagen, with salt, which sailed on the 29th Apl., after undergoing repairs here, was seen by some fishermen to go down the following day between this place and Cape Wrath. The crew took the boat and are supposed to have landed on the opposite coast. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10614).
(Classified as brig, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 30 April 1864). Caroline: this vessel foundered between Stornoway and Cape Wrath.
Registration: Danish.
(Location of loss cited as N58 20.0 W5 40.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. The vessel may have been lost within the area designated as Maritime - Western Isles.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 December 2006.
Loss (30 April 1864)
Stornoway, 2nd May [1864]. The CAROLINE (Dan. brgtne.), from Liverpool to Copenhagen, with salt, which sailed on the 29th Apl., after undergoing repairs here, was seen by some fishermen to go down the following day between this place and Cape Wrath. The crew took the boat and are supposed to have landed on the opposite coast. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10614).
(Classified as brig, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 30 April 1864). Caroline: this vessel foundered between Stornoway and Cape Wrath. Registration: Danish.
(Location of loss cited as N58 20.0 W5 40.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (29 December 2006)
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. The vessel may have been lost within the area designated as Maritime - Western Isles.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 December 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11465
Name : CAROLINE
Latitude : 582000
Longitude : 54000
Registration : DANISH
Type : BRIG
Loss Day : 30
Loss Month : 4
Loss Year : 1864
Comment : Foundered between Stornoway and Cape Wrath.
Cargo : SALT
