Maritime record MHG46440 - Mary: Whiteness Head, Moray Firth

NMRS Report: (28/09/2006 14:32:40)
NH85NW 8003 c. 803 587
N57 36.2 W4 0.2

Possibly on map sheet NH75NE.

NLO: Whiteness Head [name: NH 803 587]
Nairn [name: NH 885 567].

See also NH85NW 8006.

3 October 1854, MARY, of Greenock, sloop, Orkney to -, herrings, wind WNW force 7, stranded. Whitenness [Whiteness] Head, near Nairn, where she was damaged and sold for #30. Lloyds List. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1854 (1854-55 (75) XXXIV.359)

Cromarty, 4th Oct. A schooner and a sloop are reported to be on shore on Whiteness Head, between Nairn and Fort St. George.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,647, London, Saturday October 7 1854

Nairn, 3rd Oct. The MARY (smack), of Greenock, Ferguson, got ashore this morning; a very considerable quantity of the barrels of herrings washed away here.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,647, London, Saturday October 7 1854

Wick, 27th Oct. The MARY (sloop), of Greenock, Ferguson, from Orkney to Ireland, which was on shore at Whiteness Head, 3rd Oct., has been, sold with her cargo. [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 548).

Cromarty, 4th Oct. A schooner and a sloop are reported to be on shore on Whiteness Head, between Nairn and Fort St. George.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,647, London, Saturday October 7 1854.

Cromarty, 7th Oct. The schooner reported ashore at Whiteness Head, 3rd Oct., is a Prussian, Kelmke, master, from Memel to Liverpool, with hemp, she was but a little damaged, and would be got off with the flood and proceed if the weather continued moderate.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,649, London, Tuesday October 10 1854.

Cromarty, 12th Oct. The Prussian schooner, Kelmke, Master, from Memel to Liverpool, which was ashore at Whiteness Head, 3rd Oct., has got off.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,654, London, Monday October 16 1854.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9045).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 3 October 1854). Mary: this vessel stranded at Whiteness Head, Nairn, and was sold. Registration: Greenock.
(Location of loss cited as N57 36.33 W4 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.