Maritime record MHG49739 - Rosanna: Cape Wrath, Atlantic

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Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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NMRS Report: (30/08/2006 16:55:42)
NC27NE 8024 unlocated

NLO: Cape Wrath [name: ND 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Dundee, 23rd Dec. The ROSANNA, of this port, from Liverpool to Newcastle, is reported to have foundered near Cape Wrath: crew (except the master) drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,850, London, Wednesday December 27 [1848].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8437).

(Classified as barque: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 15 December 1848). Rosanna: this vessel foundered near Cape Wrath. Capt. Murray.
Registration: Dundee. Built 1823. 285 tons burthern. Length: 28m. Beam: 8m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, and the location cited by Whittaker is presumably essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 August 2006.



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  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 282397.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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