Maritime record MHG47976 - Thetis: Dunnet Sands, Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth

NMRS Report: (09/05/2007 11:16:03)
ND26NW 8012 c. 21 69
N58 36 W3 22

NLO: Dunnet Head [name: ND 203 768]
Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheets ND17NE or ND27SW.

The THETIS, of Yarmouth, laden with hemp and iron, was totally lost 8th inst., on Dunnet Sands. Crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, No. 4926, LL, London, Friday November 25 1814.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5807).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as hemp and iron, and date of loss as 8 November 1814). Thetis: this vessel was totally lost on Dunnet Sands. Registration: Yarmouth.
(Location of loss cited as N58 36.0 W3 22.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Dunnet Sands are not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name may be taken to apply to the extensive sands that extend from ND 216 709 to ND 204 683, around the SE side of Dunnet Bay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 February 2005.