Maritime record MHG47801 - Beaufort Castle: Faraid Head, Atlantic
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Location
Grid reference | Centred NC 3920 7189 (20m by 20m) |
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Map sheet | NC37SE |
Operational Area | CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS |
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NMRS Report: (18/02/2005)
NC37SE 8004 c. 392 719
N58 36.3 W4 46.1
NLO: Faraid Head [name: NC 392 719]
Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
A vessel laden with tallow and hemp, supposed to be the BEAUFORT CASTLE of London, Gay, from Petersburg to Dublin, was totally lost with all the crew, near Loch Erebol [Eribol], on the night of the 15th inst., during a violent gale at N.N.W..
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5130, London, Friday November 29 1816
The BEAUFOY CASTLE, of London, Gay, from Petersburg to Dublin, was totally lost with all the crew on the 15th ult., near Loch Erebol [Eribol].
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5132, London, Friday December 6 1816
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5898).
(No classification specified, but cargo cited as tallow and hemp, and date of loss as 15 November 1816). Beaufoy Castle, or possibly Beaufort Castle: this vessel was wrecked at Farout [Faraid] Head, near Loch Erriboll [Erribol]. Capt. Gray.
Registration: London.
(Location of loss cited as N58 37.33 W4 46.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 November 2004.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SHG24123 Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 268678.
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2009 3:19PM