Ashley: The Bar, Moray Firth

NH96SW 8005 c. 92 60

N57 37 W3 48

NLO: The Bar [name: NH 92 60]

Nairn [name: NH 885 567].

Possibly on map sheet NH95NW.

Formerly entered as NH85NE 8006 at cited location NH c. 89 57 [N57 35 W3 51].

Inverness, 25th Apl. The ASHLEY, Lambton, of Sunderland, from Newcastle to New York, got on shore below the Old Bar, to the East of Nairn. She has made a good deal of water.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,263, London, Saturday April 27 1850.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8601).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 24 April 1850). Ashley: this vessel stranded below Old Bar, East of Nairn. Capt. Lambton. Registration: Sunderland.

(Location of loss cited as N57 37.5 W3 48.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location of the former bar of the River Nairn is unclear. The former mouth of the river (before the construction of the breakwaters NH85NE 54.01 and NH85NE 54.02 ) was apparently at NH c. 889 579, placing this stranding within the area of the entrance to Nairn Harbour (NH85NE 54.00).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 September 2006.

The revised location that is assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Old Barr is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. It is possibly to be equated with the prominent mobile projection of The Bar.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 2007.