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Lotus: Dornoch Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Lotus: Dornoch Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near Bonar'; Bonar Bridge; Lotus
Canmore ID 286761
Site Number NH69SW 8001
NGR NH 61 90
NGR Description NH c. 61 90
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/286761
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH69SW 8001 c. 61 90
N57 53 W4 21
NLO: Bonar Bridge [name: NH 611 916]
Dornoch Firth [name centred NH 87 89].
Possibly on map sheet NH68NW.
Bonar, 1st Sept. The LOTUS (schr.), of Ardrossan, McGregor, from Liverpool to this place and Helmsdale, with tar and butter, drifted on the rocks here on the 28th Aug., fell over as the tide ebbed, and now lies on her side, with her masts in the water: crew and about half the cargo saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,415, London, Saturday, September 5 1863.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10422).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of tar and butter: date of loss cited as 28 August 1863). Lotus: this vessel stranded near Bonar [Bridge].
Registration: Ardrossan.
(Location of loss cited as N57 53.00 W4 20.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2007.
Loss (28 August 1863)
Bonar, 1st Sept. The LOTUS (schr.), of Ardrossan, McGregor, from Liverpool to this place and Helmsdale, with tar and butter, drifted on the rocks here on the 28th Aug., fell over as the tide ebbed, and now lies on her side, with her masts in the water: crew and about half the cargo saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,415, London, Saturday, September 5 1863.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10422).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of tar and butter: date of loss cited as 28 August 1863). Lotus: this vessel stranded near Bonar [Bridge].
Registration: Ardrossan.
(Location of loss cited as N57 53.00 W4 20.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (27 February 2007)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11368
Name : LOTUS
Latitude : 575300
Longitude : 42000
Registration : ARDROSSAN
Type : SCHOONER
Loss Day : 28
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1863
Comment : Stranded near Bonar
Cargo : TAR, BUTTER
