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Linda Flor: Coul Links, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Linda Flor: Coul Links, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Coull Sands; Coull Sand; Dornoch; Embo; Loch Fleet; Linda Flor
Canmore ID 267628
Site Number NH89SW 8003
NGR NH 81 94
NGR Description NH c. 81 94
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/267628
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH89SW 8003 c. 81 94
N57 55 W4 1
NLO: Coul [name: NH 811 941]
Coul Links [name centred NH 812 945]
Dornoch [name: NH 798 895]
Embo [name: NH 818 928].
Possibly on map sheet NH89NW.
Wick, Oct. 8, LINDA FLOR, Petersen, which recently went ashore on Coull Sand [Coul Links], near Dornoch, has become a wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,422, London, Saturday October 11 1879.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4860).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 22 September 1879). Linda Flor: this vessel stranded (?) on Coull Sands, Dornoch. Capt. Petersen.
(Location of loss cited as N57 55.50 W3 59.75).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The extensive sands of Coul Links run northwards from Embo to the entrance to Loch Fleet (NH 810 956), a distance of some 3km.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 November 2004.
Loss (22 September 1879)
Wick, Oct. 8, LINDA FLOR, Petersen, which recently went ashore on Coull Sand [Coul Links], near Dornoch, has become a wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,422, London, Saturday October 11 1879.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4860).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 22 September 1879). Linda Flor: this vessel stranded (?) on Coull Sands, Dornoch. Capt. Petersen.
(Location of loss cited as N57 55.50 W3 59.75).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (1 November 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The extensive sands of Coul Links run northwards from Embo to the entrance to Loch Fleet (NH 810 956), a distance of some 3km.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 November 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10638
Name : LINDA FLOR
Latitude : 575530
Longitude : 35945
Loss Day : 22
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1879
Comment : Stranded (?) on Coull Sands, Dornoch. Capt. Petersen
