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Town: Loch Eriboll, Atlantic
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Town: Loch Eriboll, Atlantic
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Pentland Firth
Canmore ID 285643
Site Number NC46SE 8024
NGR NC
NGR Description Unlocated
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285643
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC46SE 8024 unlocated
NLO: Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheets NC45NW, NC45NE, NC45SW, NC45SE, or NC46SW.
Loch Eriboll, 12th Nov. The TOWN (smack), of Wick, Morrison, from this place to Thurso, in ballast, drove ashore 8th Nov.: crew saved.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 16,411, London, Friday, November 16 1866.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11100).
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her subsequent recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 January 2007.
Evidence Of Loss (8 November 1866)
Loch Eriboll, 12th Nov. The TOWN (smack), of Wick, Morrison, from this place to Thurso, in ballast, drove ashore 8th Nov.: crew saved.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 16,411, London, Friday, November 16 1866.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11100).
Note (8 January 2007)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her subsequent recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 January 2007.
