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Dalkeith: Balnakiel Bay, Atlantic
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Dalkeith: Balnakiel Bay, Atlantic
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Cape Wrath; Durness; Pentland Firth; Scrabster Roads; Dalkeith
Canmore ID 260623
Site Number NC36NE 8002
NGR NC 38 69
NGR Description NC c. 38 69
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC36NE 8002 c. 38 69
N58 35 W4 47
NLO: Scrabster [name: ND 102 702]
Balnakiel Bay [name centred NC 382 695]
Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Kyle of Durness [name centred NC 37 65].
Possibly on map sheet NC37SE.
Thurso, 18th Feb., the DALKEITH (schr.), of Inverness, Martin, bound to Stornoway, with coal, has become a total wreck in Balnakiel bay, on the West coast. The vessel lay in Scrabter [Scrabster] roads about three months, and after putting to sea sprung a leak. When run ashore she had six feet of water in her hold, and was quite unmanageable: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,670, London, Saturday February 21 1874.
See record for the ANTELOPE.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4064).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 18 February 1874). Dalkeith: this vessel was wrecked in Balnakiel Bay. Capt. Martin. (Scrabster Roads?).
Registration: Inverness. Built 1835. 87grt. Length: 21m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 35.0 W34 46.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. A location of loss in Balnakiel Bay is preferred over one in Scrabster Roads.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 January 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 767
Name : DALKEITH
Latitude : 583500
Longitude : 44600
Date Built : 1835
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 87
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 21
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 18
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1874
Comment : Wrecked in Balnakeil Bay. Capt. Martin (Scrabster Roads ?)
Cargo : COAL
