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Friends: Pentland Firth
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Friends: Pentland Firth
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Halbom Head'; Holborn Head; North Sea; Thurso; Pentland Firth; Friends
Canmore ID 285518
Site Number ND07NE 8001
NGR ND 08 76
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285518
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND07NE 8001 unlocated
NLO: Holborn Head [name: ND 109 716]
Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Scrabster, 4th Aug. The FRIENDS, Murray, of and for Wick, from Stornoway, with salt and empty barrels, was abandoned yesterday off Halbom head {Holborn Head]: master and 2 men saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,635, London, Wednesday, August, 7 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11265).
(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date cited as 3 August 1867). Friends: this vessel was abandoned off Holborn Head. Capt. Murray.
Registration: wick. 29nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.0 W3 35.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the cited location of abandonment. The date cited is that of abandonment.
It remains unclear whether, when and where the vessel subsequently stranded or foundered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 January 2007.
Evidence Of Loss (3 August 1867)
Scrabster, 4th Aug. The FRIENDS, Murray, of and for Wick, from Stornoway, with salt and empty barrels, was abandoned yesterday off Halbom head {Holborn Head]: master and 2 men saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,635, London, Wednesday, August, 7 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11265).
(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date cited as 3 August 1867). Friends: this vessel was abandoned off Holborn Head. Capt. Murray.
Registration: wick. 29nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.0 W3 35.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (3 January 2007)
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the cited location of abandonment. The date cited is that of abandonment.
It remains unclear whether, when and where the vessel subsequently stranded or foundered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 January 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11793
Name : FRIENDS
Latitude : 584000
Longitude : 33500
Registration : WICK
Type : SMACK
Tonnage : 29
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 3
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1867
Comment : Abandonded off Holborn Head. Capt. Murray
