Maritime record MHG46441 - Robert Mcwilliam: Kentra Bay, Ardnamurchan, Sound Of Arisaig

NMRS Report: (02/09/2003)
NM66NW 8001 c. 640 690
N56 45.2 W5 51.7

NLO: Kentra Bay [name centred NM 640 690].

29 November 1854, ROBERT McWILLIAM, of Aberdeen, brig, Whitehaven to Quebec, wind W force 10, stranded. Kintra Bay, near Brora, Sutherlandshire, by driving Stranded, having put back from stress of weather. 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)

Tobermory, 3rd Dec. The ROBERT MCWILLIAM, Maurice, from Whitehaven, to Quebec, bore up from 51 W, and arrived at Kintra Bay, 29th Nov., where she struck on a sunken rock, slipped small bower chain and anchor, and drove on shore, and is expected to become a wreck. [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 568).

This loss is not noted by I G Whittaker (1998); the vessel was possibly refloated. The suggested location near Brora (Sutherland) appears anomalous.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 September 2003.