Isabell: Spey Bay, Moray Firth
Sloop (18th Century)
Site Name Isabell: Spey Bay, Moray Firth
Classification Sloop (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near The Spey'; North Sea; Isabell
Canmore ID 311306
Site Number NJ36NW 8052
NGR NJ 32 67
NGR Description NJ c. 32 67
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Moray
- Parish Maritime - Moray
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
Loss (17 November 1756)
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 17 November 1756). Isabell: this vessel stranded near the Spey. Capt MacKenzie.
Registration: Stornoway.
(Location of loss cited as N57 490.67 W3 6.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (22 June 2011)
NLO: Spey Bay [name centred NJ 37 67].
See also NH98NW 8005.
Inverness, 17th Dec. 'The ALBION, from Wemyss to Portrose, was driven on the rocks near Tarbetness [Tarbat Ness] Light House 14th inst. Crew saved. The JAMES & ISABELLA, of this port, is reported to be on shore near Portsoy.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7223, London, Friday December 23 1836.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7208).
Note (22 June 2011)
(Location entered as NJ c. 31 65 [N57 40 W3 10]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker.
Spey Bay (name centred NJ 37 67) forms an ill-defined embayment which extends over portions of several map sheets.
The settlement of Spey Bay is at NJ 354 652, and the mouth of the River Spey is at NJ 344 656.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 June 2011.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10533
Name : ISABELL
Latitude : 574040
Longitude : 30600
Registration : STORNOWAY
Type : SLOOP
Loss Day : 17
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1756
Comment : Stranded near the Spey. Capt. MacKenzie
