Maritime record MHG46406 - Lucy And Gatway: Loch Eriboll

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Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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NMRS Report: (24/05/2005)
NC45NW 8004 unlocated

NLO: Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60].

Possibly on map sheets NC46SW or NC46SE.

12 August 1847. LUCY + GATWAY. Passed waterlogged and abandoned; taken to Loch Erribol.
Source: PP Return from Lloyd's books of Collisions, Accidents and Wrecks of Vessels 1847-50 (1851 (688) LII.1).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 43).

Leith, 17th Aug. The GATTAWAY, Wood, of Boness, whilst lying in Loch Eribol, drove away from her anchors, & went on the rocks, but after cutting away her masts, she got off and was assisted into a place of safety.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,427, London, Wednesday August 18 1847.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8185).

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 July 2003.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 246635.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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