Maritime record MHG47912 - Horta: Atlantic

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Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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NMRS Report: (08/09/2005)
NC27NE 8018 unlocated

NLO: Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

The HORTA, Barwife, from Belfast to Dronton, was captured 28th April, off Cape Wrath, by a French Privateer, and sunk.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4463, London, Tuesday June 19 1804.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5529).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 28 April 1804). Horta (Hortree?): this vessel was captured by a French Privateer and sunk off Cape Wrath. Capt. Barwife.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40 W5 0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 September 2005.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 270431.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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