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Endeavor: Inner Moray Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Endeavor: Inner Moray Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Nairn'; North Sea; Endeavor
Canmore ID 291686
Site Number NH86SE 8005
NGR NH 87 60
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/291686
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH85NE 8013 unlocated
NLO: Nairn [name: NH 885 567].
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 4 August 1829). Endeavor [sic.]: this vessel foundered two miles off Nairn.
Registration: South Shields.
(Location of loss cited as N57 37.0 W3 53.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 December 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10438
Name : ENDEAVOR
Latitude : 573700
Longitude : 35300
Registration : SOUTH SHIELDS
Type : SCHOONER
Loss Day : 4
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1829
Comment : Foundered 2 miles off Nairn.
Cargo : COAL
