Maritime record MHG14787 - Doris (possibly): Neist Point, Duirinish, Moonen Bay

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 1248 4683 (80m by 80m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG14NW
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish DUIRINISH

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Full Description

See also:
NG14NW0008
JHooper, 20/9/2002
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NG14NW 8000 1246 4683
N 57 25.25 W 6 47.4167

FORMERLY NG14NW 8515

Quality of fix = PA
Horizontal Datum = UND

Surveying Details
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16 October 1970. At Neist Point, large anchor chains have been located in 11 metres (exact position not known). The lighthouse keeper suggests the name DORRICK (cannot trace) for a vessel lost on point at the turn of the century located by divers during the summer of 1970.
Report by B R Johnson, letter 7 October 1970, via a Lloyds letter 14 October 1970.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

DORIS, 1381gt, 844nt, length 255', beam 36', draught 15.7'
En route from Liverpool to Stettin, the Norwegian steamship DORIS ran onto rock at Neist Point on 12 July 1909. She was built in 1900 by Wood, Skinner of Newcastle, engine by N E marine of Sunderland.
The wreck was located in 1970 close in to the south east corner of the Neist promontory, below the lighthouse on Neist Point.
The wreck is steel, with an iron propeller and is now completely broken up, lying on a slope of rock and sand in 6-24m of water.
Source; Baird 1995

DORIS. Had a cargo of tin which was salvaged.
Source; Butland & Siedlecki, BSAC Wreck Register 1987.

CROSS REF: NG14NW 8001 DORIS

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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