Maritime record MHG48819 - Cornelia: More Head, North Minch

NMRS Report: (30/09/2005)
NH19SW 8020 unlocated

NLO: Ullapool [name: NH 125 942]
Loch Broom [name centred NC 14 92].

Wick, 5th Nov. `The CORNELIA, Small, of this port, was lost previous to 3rd inst.; crew saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9576, London, Tuesday November 19 1844.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7902).

(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 3 November 1844). Cornelia: this vessel sank off More Head, or near Lochinver. Capt. Small. Registration: Wick.
(Location of loss cited as N58 10.0 W5 20.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, being derived from the location of the port of report. The location of More Head cannot be established from the available map evidence.
The classification and location of loss cited by Whittaker remain unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 September 2005.