Maritime record MHG48404 - Sir William Wallace: Murkle Bay, Pentland Firth

NMRS Report: (10/05/2007 13:28:34)
ND16NE 8012 c. 171 694
N58 36.3 W3 25.6

NLO: Murkle Bay [name centred ND 171 694]
West Murkle [name: ND 157 695]
East Murkle [name: ND 173 687]
Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Scrabster [name: ND 102 702]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].

Possibly on map sheet ND17SE.

Not to be confused with ND38SW 8008.

Thurso, 2d July. `The SIR WM. WALLACE, of and for Aberdeen, Anderson, from Liverpool NB was run on shore in the Pentland Frith [Firth] yesterday, during a thick fog, and in attempting to make Serabster [Scrabster] Roads, was this day obliged to be run on the sands in Muckle [Murkle] Bay, about four miles Eastward of this place, and has 10 feet of water in her hold.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6340, London, Tuesday July 8 1828.

Aberdeen, 12th July. `The SIR WM. WALLACE, Anderson, from Richebucto, arrived today, after being on shore in Muckle [Murkle] Bay.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6342, London, Tuesday July 15 1828.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6614).

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 May 2005.