Maritime record MHG48706 - Nancy: Isle Martin, North Minch

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 09 98 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NH09NE
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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Full Description

NMRS Report: (20/11/2007 11:09:43)
NH09NE 8002 c. 09 99
N57 56 W5 14

NLO: Isle Martin [name centred NH 095 995].

Possibly on map sheets NC00SE or NH19NW.

Ullapool, 13th Nov. `The NANCY, Sloan, from Liverpool to this quarter, was wrecked 9th inst., on Isle Martin: part of the cargo saved. The wind, for the last ten days, has been very boisterous from WNW.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7397, London, Friday November 17 1837.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7252).

(Classified as smack, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 9 November 1837). Nancy: this vessel was wrecked on Isle Martin. Capt. Sloan.
Registration: Wigtown. Built 1803. 58 tons burthern. Length: 15m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 56.5 W5 14.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 August 2005.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 274524.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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