Maritime record MHG47683 - Linda Flor: Coul Links, North Sea

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 809 940 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NH89SW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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Full Description

NMRS Report: (01/11/2004)
NH89SW 8003 c. 81 94
N57 55 W4 1

Possibly on map sheet NH89NW.

NLO: Coul [name: NH 811 941]
Coul Links [name centred NH 812 945]
Dornoch [name: NH 798 895]
Embo [name: NH 818 928].

Wick, Oct. 8, LINDA FLOR, Petersen, which recently went ashore on Coull Sand [Coul Links], near Dornoch, has become a wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,422, London, Saturday October 11 1879.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4860).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 22 September 1879). This vessel stranded (?) on Coull Sands, Dornoch. Capt. Petersen.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The extensive sands of Coul Links run northwards from Embo to the entrance to Loch Fleet (NH 810 956), a distance of some 3km.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 November 2004.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 267628.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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