Maritime record MHG46404 - Salima: Dunnet Head, Pentland Firth

NMRS Report: (24/04/2007 15:04:47)
ND27NW 8010 c. 203 768
N58 40.3 W3 22.5

NLO: Dunnet Head [name: ND 203 768]
Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheet ND17NE.

12 April 1847, SALIMA. 111 [gross tonnage]. Foundered at Dunnet Head.
Source: PP Return from Lloyd's books of Collisions, Accidents and Wrecks of Vessels 1847-50 (1851 (688) LII.1).

Wick, 9th April. The SELINA, of Glasgow, from Kissock (Inverness) to Islay, drove from her anchors in Scrabster Roads during a very heavy gale last night, & foundered on Dunnet Head; all hands lost, except the master, who is said to have been washed on shore.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,317, London, Monday April 12 1847

Huna, (Pentland Frith), 10th Apl.. 'The SALIMA, of Glasgow, and not the SELINA, as reported in Lloyd's List of the 12th, foundered off Dunnet Head, 8th inst.'. [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 20).

(Classified as brig, with cargo of grain: date of loss cited as 9 April 1847). Salima: this vessel was wrecked on Dunnet Head. Capt. Menzies.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1833. 98 tons burthern. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.33 W3 22.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

It remains uncertain whether this vessel stranded on Dunnet Head or foundered off it; the former is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 April 2007.