Maritime record MHG47372 - Regent: Loch Carron

NMRS Report: (14/02/2007 17:17:46)
NG83SE 8004 unlocated

NLO: Loch Carron [name centred NG 83 34]
Inverness [name: NH 665 455].

Possibly on map sheets NG83NE, NG83SW, NG93NW or NG94SW.

Inverness, 20th Jan., the REGENT (schr.), of Montrose, Off. No., 28, 981, Mackenzie, from Burntisland to Dublin, with coal, in entering Plockton harbour, 18th Jan., struck on a sunken rock and sunk: next day the master employed men from the shore to save materials.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,648, London, Tuesday January 27 1874.

Glasgow, 26th Feb., the REGENT (schnr.), of Montrose, Mackenzie, from Burntisland to Dublin, with coal, which struck upon a sunken rock, 18th Jan., in entering Inverness harbour, has been sold by auction, together with her cargo, for £360.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,676, London, Saturday February 28 1874.

Stornoway, 25th Feb., the REGENT (schr.), of Montrose, from Burntisland to Dublin, which struck on a rock, 18th Jan., in entering Lochcarron [Loch Carron], and afterwards sunk, has been sold by auction for £360.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,676, London, Saturday February 28 1874.

Stornoway, 12th May, the REGENT (schr.), of Montrose, from Burntisland to [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4057).

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 2004.