Maritime record MHG46414 - Pomona Packet: Canisbay, Pentland Firth

NMRS Report: (04/05/2007 10:01:08)
ND37SW 8010 unlocated

NLO: Canisbay [name: ND 348 721]
John o' Groats [name centred ND 385 727]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Formerly entered as ND37NW 8025 (unlocated).

Formerly also entered as ND37SW 8015.

Possibly on map sheet ND37SE.

21 December 1847. PANAMA PACKET. Stranded at Canesbay [Canisbay].
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. 88).

Conisbay [Canisbay], 16th Dec. The weather here is very boisterous: the sloop POMONA PACKET, Calder, of Thurn, from Aberdeen, was stranded near this place 14th inst.: master and mate drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,534, London, Tuesday December 21 1847.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8272).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 14 December 1847). Pomona: this vessel stranded at Canisby [Canisbay]. Capt. Calder. Registration: Thurso.
(Location of loss cited as N58 38.0 W3 8.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Canisbay [name: ND 348 721] lies inland.
The classification and cargo cited by Whittaker remain unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 July 2003.