Esperanza: Loch Eriboll, Atlantic

NC46SE 8006 c. 47 62

N58 31 W4 38

NLO: Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Location formerly entered as NC c. 478 621 [N58 31.2 W4 36.8].

27 October 1898 ESPERANZA, 35 years, of Sweden, wood schooner, 342 ton, 9 men, Master F.T. Lundborg, Owner E. Jansson, Malmo, Sweden. Hernosand to Ayr. Timber. Wind SW9. Near mouth of Hope River, Loch Eriboll, Sutherland. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 726).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 27 October 1898). Esperanza: this vessel stranded near the mouth of the Hope River [River Hope], Loch Erriboll. Capt. Lundberg.

Registration: Malmo. Built 1862. 375grt. Length: 40m. Beam: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 31.5 W4 36.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The River Hope [name centred NC 473 612] or Hope River debouches into the E side of Loch Eriboll (to the SE of its wide mouth) at NC 478 621.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 September 2002.