Maritime record MHG46415 - George: Sutherland, North Minch

NMRS Report: (22/07/2003)
NC26NW 8002 unlocated

9 March 1850, GEORGE of Thurso, Sloop, all lives lost. West coast of Sutherlandshire, wrecked on. Lloyds List 25 March 1850.
Source: PP British Sessional Papers. Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1850 and 1851 (1852 (XLIX.503))

9 Mar 1850, GEORGE, sloop, 3 crew, unknown cargo, stranded, total loss, supposed 3 lives lost, W. Coast of Sutherlandshire. Table 8, Wrecks and Casualties (exclusive of Collisions) occasioning Loss of Life during the Years 1851 to 1860.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1860 (1861 [2811] LVIII.335)

Wick, 22nd Mar. The sloop GEORGE, of Thurso, was wrecked on the West Coast of Sutherlandshire, 9th Mar.; crew drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,235, London, Monday March 25 1850.

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 121).

(Classified as sloop: date of loss cited as 9 March 1850). This vessel was wrecked on the W coast of Sutherland.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 July 2003.