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Unknown: Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Thurso Bay, Pentland Firth
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) North Sea
Canmore ID 261026
Site Number ND16NW 8035
NGR ND 11 69
NGR Description ND c. 11 69
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND16NW 8035 c. 11 69
N58 36 W3 32
NLO: Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Thurso Bay [name centred ND 115 699]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheet ND17SW.
1 May 1884, UNKNOWN, 2 yrs old, not registered, wooden lug, 2 tons, 4 crew, Master and Owner J. Begg, Thurso, departed Scrabster for fishing, in ballast, 3 lives lost, wind W9, foundered, total loss, Thurson [Thurso] Bay, Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3411).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 1 May 1884). No name: this vessel foundered in Thurso Bay. Capt. Begg.
Not registered. 2 tons [unspecified].
(location of loss cited as N58 36.0 W3 31.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 May 2007.
