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Unknown: Sandside Bay, Pentland Firth
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Sandside Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Thurso; North Sea
Canmore ID 277239
Site Number NC96NE 8011
NGR NC 963 657
NGR Description NC c. 963 657
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/277239
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC96NE 8011 c. 963 657
N58 34 W3 47
NLO: Sandside Bay [name: ND 963 657]
Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
For the discovery of wreckage (possibly from this wreck), see ND07SW 8008.
Thurso, 10th Sept. Part of the masts of a vessel standing out of the water, has been discovered in Sandside Bay.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,453, London, Friday September 17 1847.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8216).
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998),
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 November 2005.
