Valid: Portnancon Bay, Loch Eriboll
Motor Boat (20th Century)
Site Name Valid: Portnancon Bay, Loch Eriboll
Classification Motor Boat (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Portnancon Pier; Valid
Canmore ID 295054
Site Number NC46SW 8001
NGR NC 4275 6036
NGR Description NC c. 427 603
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC46SW 8001 c. 427 603
N58 30.2 W4 42
NLO: Portnancon [name: NC 427 603].
(Classified as Motor Boat: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 28 July 1923). Valid: this vessel caught fire, beached and burnt at Portnancon Bay, Loch Eriboll. Registration: Aberdeen.
(Location of loss cited as N58 30.0 W4 41.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Portnancon Bay is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the small but distinct indentation into the WNW shore of Loch Eriboll immediately N of Portnancon Pier (NC46SW 5.01).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 June 2008.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 12875
Name : VALID
Latitude : 583000
Longitude : 44100
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : MOTOR BOAT
Loss Day : 28
Loss Month : 7
Loss Year : 1923
Comment : Fire, beached and burnt at Portnancon Bay, Loch Eriboll.
