Maritime record MHG46489 - Excelsior: Atlantic

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Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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NMRS Report: (28/04/2005)
NC87NW 8003 unlocated

NLO: Strathy Point [name: NC 827 699]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

EXCELSIOR, 8/2162 not registered, 30 ton, 3/6/1889, smack. About 18 miles NNE of Strathy Point, Sutherlandshire. Struck floating wreckage.
Source: PP Report of joint committee of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade on floating derelicts. Appendix F. List of British vessels totally lost through striking floating or submerged wreckage during the ten years end 30 June 1893 (1894 LXXVI.97).

3 June 1889. EXCELSIOR. 3 years. Not reg. Wood smack. 30 ton. 8 men. Master J. Geddes. Owner D. Reid, Port Gordon. Banff to fishing. Ballast. Struck floating wreckage. Wind S5. About 18 miles NNE of Strathy Point, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1255).

(Classified as wooden smack, in ballast: registration number cited as BF 398 and date of loss as 3 June 1889). This vessel struck floating wreckage about 18 miles NNE of Strathy Point.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the location cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 October 2003.
I G Whittaker 1998.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 251705.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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