Maritime record MHG46698 - Hansom: Portmahomack, Dornoch Firth

NMRS Report: (18/12/2006 12:09:26)
NH98SW 8003 c. 913 844
N57 50.2 W3 49.9

Possibly on map sheet NH98NW.

NLO: Portmahomack [name: NH 915 813]
Dornoch [name: NH 798 895]
Dornoch Firth [name centred NH 87 89].

13 August 1885, HANSOM, 16 yrs old, not registered, wooden lugger, 15 tons, 5 crew. Master and Owner W. Thompson, Buckie. Departed Buckie for fishing, in ballast. Wind NNE9, stranded Portmahomack Bay, Co. Ross.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1873).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as BF 213 and date of loss as 13 August 1885). This vessel stranded in Portmahomack Bay.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Portmahomack Bay is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name presumably applies to the well-defined indentation in front of Portmahomack village.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 December 2003.