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Mary And Jane: Skerra Bay, Pentland Firth
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Mary And Jane: Skerra Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Mary & Jane; Portskerra; North Sea
Canmore ID 252871
Site Number NC86NE 8007
NGR NC 869 664
NGR Description NC c. 869 664
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/252871
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC86NE 8007 c. 869 664
N58 34.3 W3 56.7
NLO: Portskerra [name: NC 877 657]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
12 September 1885, MARY AND JANE, 26 yrs old, registered Peterhead, wooden sloop, 33 tons, 3 crew. Master and Owner J. McLeod, Loch Innard, Sutherlandshire. Departed Scrabster for Loch Innard, Sutherlandshire, carrying general cargo. Wind WSW 10, stranded Skerra Bay, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1881).
(Classified as wooden smack, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 12 September 1885). Mary & Jane: this vessel stranded at Skerra Bay, Sutherland. Capt. McLeod.
Registration: Peterhead. Built 1859. 33grt. Length: 15m. beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 32.50 W4 18.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Skerra Bay is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name is presumably applied to the clearly-defined inlet to the NW of Portskerra village.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 December 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3492
Name : MARY & JANE
Latitude : 583230
Longitude : 41800
Date Built : 1859
Registration : PETERHEAD
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 33
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 15
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 12
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1885
Comment : Stranded at Skerra Bay, Sutherland. Capt. McLeod
Cargo : GENERAL
