Unknown: Atlantic
Craft (18th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Atlantic
Classification Craft (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near Tongue'; Kyle Of Tongue; Tongue Bay; Pentland Firth
Canmore ID 294996
Site Number NC55NE 8002
NGR NC
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC55NE 8002 unlocated
NLO: Tongue [name centred NC 591 567]
Kyle of Tongue [name centred NC 58 58]
Tongue Bay [name centred NC 60 61]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheets NC56NE, or NC66SW.
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 8 April 1739). Unknown: this vessel was cast away near Tongue, Sutherland.
Registration: Dublin.
(Location of loss cited as N58 33.0 4 25.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unclear whther the vessel was 'cast away' within the Kyle of Tongue, within Tongue Bay, of further out. It also remains unclear whether and where the vessel was subsequently stranded or foundered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 June 2008.
