Maritime record MHG49693 - I'll Try: St John's Point, Pentland Firth

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Location

Grid reference Centred ND 310 753 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet ND37NW
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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NMRS Report: (21/07/2006 16:26:10)
ND38SW 8032 c. 311 753
N58 39.6 W3 11.3

NLO: St John's Point [name: ND 311 753]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Huna (Pentland Frith [Firth]), 10th Sept. The schooner I'LL TRY, Green, of Yarmouth, form Liverpool to Stralsund, struck on St. John's Point, St. John's Sound, Pentland Frith, and it is expected will got to pieces next tide: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,761, London, Wednesday September 13 1848

Conisbay [Canisbay], 11th Sept. The I'LL TRY, Green, from Liverpool to Stralsund, which went on shore on St. John's Point, Pentland Frith [Firth] yesterday, has become a complete wreck.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,762, London, Thursday September 14 [1848].

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8377).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 9 September 1848). I'll Try: this vessel stranded at St John's Point. Capt. Green. Registration: Yarmouth.
(Location of loss cited as N58 39.67 W3 11.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The cargo cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 July 2006.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 282227.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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