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Eclipse: The Bar, Moray Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Eclipse: The Bar, Moray Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On [the] Old Bar, At Nairn'; North Sea; Eclipse
Canmore ID 290658
Site Number NH96SW 8006
NGR NH 92 61
NGR Description NH c. 92 61
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/290658
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH96SW 8006 c. 92 60
N57 37 W3 48
NLO: The Bar [name: NH 92 60]
Nairn [name: NH 885 567].
Possibly on map sheet NH95NW.
Formerly entered as NH85NE 8009 at cited location NH c. 89 57 [N57 35 W3 51].
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of slates: date of loss cited as 5 October 1872). Eclipse: this vessel stranded on [the] Old Bar at Nairn. Capt. Brown.
Registration: Dundee. Built 1796. 52grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 37.5 W3 48.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location of the old or former bar of the River Nairn is unclear. The former mouth of the river (before the construction of the breakwaters NH85NE 54.01 and NH85NE 54.02 ) was apparently at NH c. 889 579, placing this stranding within the area of the entrance to Nairn Harbour (NH85NE 54.00).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 September 2007.
The revised location that is assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Old Barr is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. It is possibly to be equated with the prominent mobile projection of The Bar.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10162
Name : ECLIPSE
Latitude : 573730
Longitude : 34800
Date Built : 1796
Registration : DUNDEE
Type : SCHOONER
Tonnage : 52
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 16
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 5
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1872
Comment : Stranded on Old Bar at Nairn. Capt. Brown
Cargo : SLATES
