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Fortune: North Sea
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Fortune: North Sea
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off The Coast Of Caithness'; Lybster; Pentland Firth; Fortune
Canmore ID 283200
Site Number ND43NW 8004
NGR ND 41 38
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/283200
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND43NW 8004 unlocated
NLO: Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Lybster [name: ND 248 355].
Formerly entered as ND35NE 8029.
Inverness, 31st May. The FORTUNE (smack), of and from this port, for Wick, foundered on [off] the coast of Caithness on the 25th May: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,850, London, Tuesday June 5 1855.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9126).
(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 25 May 1855). Fortune: this vessel foundered off the coast of Caithness. Near Lybster? Pentland Firth?
Registration: Inverness. Built 1853. 17 tons burthern. Length: 11m. Beam: 3m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 30.00 W3 0.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is entirely arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. It remains unclear whether the vessel foundered in the Pentland Firth or the North Sea.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 October 2006.
Loss (25 May 1855)
Inverness, 31st May. The FORTUNE (smack), of and from this port, for Wick, foundered on [off] the coast of Caithness on the 25th May: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,850, London, Tuesday June 5 1855.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9126).
(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 25 May 1855). Fortune: this vessel foundered off the coast of Caithness. Near Lybster? Pentland Firth?
Registration: Inverness. Built 1853. 17 tons burthern. Length: 11m. Beam: 3m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 30.00 W3 0.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (3 October 2006)
The map sheet assigned to this record is entirely arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. It remains unclear whether the vessel foundered in the Pentland Firth or the North Sea.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 October 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13682
Name : FORTUNE
Latitude : 582000
Longitude : 30000
Date Built : 1853
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SMACK
Tonnage : 17
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 11
Beam : 3
Loss Day : 25
Loss Month : 5
Loss Year : 1855
Comment : Foundered off the coast of Caithness. Near Lybster? Pentland Firth?
