Maritime record MHG47010 - Ben Ma Chree: Beauly Firth

NMRS Report: (04/10/2004)
NH64NE 8005 c. 69 49
N57 31 W4 11

See also NH64NE 8004.

Possibly on map sheets NH65SE, NH74NW or NH75SW.

NLO: Beauly Firth [name centred NH 59 47]
Fort George [name: NH762 567]
Inverness [name: NH 66 45]
Munlochy Bay [name centred NH 677 527].

1 October 1860, BEN MA CREE, SS, of Leith, 325 tons, William Gordon Bennett, Master, in collision in Mullochy Bay, half way between Fort George and Inverness, with the SS TIMES. Neither vessel was lost. Inquiry ordered before the Local Marine Board at Leith, with Captain James Clarke as Nautical Assessor.
Part III: Containing a precis of Special Inquiries into Casualties, ordered by the Board of Trade during the Year 1861. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2149).

The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially speculative and arbitrary. The collision most probably occurred in the open Beauly Firth rather than within the shallow waters of Munlochy Bay. The loss of this vessel is not cited by Whittaker, presumably as she was recovered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 March 2003.