Maritime record MHG46409 - Canton: Faraid Head, Atlantic

NMRS Report: (14/01/2005)
NC37SE 8002 c. 38 71
N58 36 W4 47

NLO: Faraid Head [name: NC 392 719]
Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheet NC47SW.

28 August 1847. CANTON, 481 [gross tonnage]. Wrecked near Cape Abrath, crew drowned.
Source: PP Return from Lloyd's books of Collisions, Accidents and Wrecks of Vessels 1847-50 (1851 (688) LII.1)

Rispond, (Loch Eriboll), 23rd Aug.. The bark CANTON, of Hull, bound to America, apparently in ballast, was totally wrecked at Farrouthead, near Cape Wrath, yesterday morning, during a heavy gale, and all on board perished.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,436, London, Saturday August 28 1847.

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 56).

(Classified as brig: no cargo cited). This vessel was wrecked at Clachmore Rock, Farout [Faraid] Head on 22 August 1847.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Clachmore Rock may be equated with Clach Mor na Faraid [name: NC 398 711].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 July 2003.