Maritime record MHG47879 - Sisters: Portmahomack, Dornoch Firth

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 90 80 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NH98SW
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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NMRS Report: (18/12/2006 12:09:35)
NH98SW 8004 c. 91 81
N57 48 W3 50

Possibly on map sheet NH98SE.

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

Portmahomack (near Cromarty), March 25 [1881], 10.33 p.m., SISTERS, after losing both anchors, drove ashore here last night, during a gale, and is making water: fear cargo must be discharged. [The above vessel is bound from the Cromarty Firth to the Tyne or Forth district].
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,877, London, Saturday March 26 1881.

General, SISTERS, from Cromarty Firth for the Forth or Tyne district, ashore at Portmahomack. A telegram received morning of 26th inst., from Invergordon stated that a competent person was in charge of this case. He was getting vessel lightened. Damage was thought not to be considerable. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5155).

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998); she was possibly successfully recovered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 December 2004.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 269680.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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