Maritime record MHG47902 - Michael Scott: Portmahomack, Dornoch Firth

NMRS Report: (21/03/2007 16:53:36)
NH98SW 8006 c. 91 81
N57 48 W3 50

NLO: Tarbat Ness [name: NH 949 878]
Dornoch [name: NH 798 895]
Portmahomack [name: NH 905 844]
Dornoch Firth [name centred NH 87 89].

Possibly on map sheet NH98NE or NH98SE.

Formerly entered as Paddle, Steam Tug.

27 November 1882, MICHAEL SCOTT, 8 yrs old, of Wick, wooden steam tug, 12 tons, 5 crew, Master J. Durrand, Owner The Wick Towage Co., Limited, Wick, departed Wick for Isle of Oronsay, Hebrides, in ballast, wind N8, stranded, total loss, 2 miles W. of Tarbet [Tarbat] Ness, Co. Ross.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1882-83 (1884 [C.4154] LXXI.621).

MICHAEL SCOTT, of Wick, Official No. 43,029, 12 net tons, built by Richard Stobbs, North Shields.
Table III: List of the 184 Steamers totally lost included in Table 1 of this Appendix, with the Builder's Name and Address in each case if known.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1882-83 (1884 [C.4154] LXXI.621).

MICHAEL SCOTT, Wick, Nov. 28, 12.23 p.m. A telegram received in Wick states that tug MICHAEL SCOTT, of Wick, sprung a leak, and, to save life, was run ashore near Portmahomack.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,398, London, Wednesday November 29 1882

MICHAEL SCOTT. Wick, Nov. 29, 10.40 a.m. The MICHAEL SCOTT tug, [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5401).

(Classified as wooden steam paddle tug, in ballast: date of loss cited as 27 November 1882). Michael Scott: this tug stranded two miles West of Tarbet [Tarbat] Ness. Capt. Durrand.
Registration: Wick. 93 grt. Length: 30m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 51 W3 49.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.