Maritime record MHG49741 - Pheasant: Huna, Pentland Firth

NMRS Report: (27/04/2007 15:05:10)
ND37SE 8032 c. 36 73
N58 38 W3 6

NLO: Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Stacks of Duncansby [name: ND 400 719]
Duncansby Head [name: ND 406 733]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Formerly entered as ND47SW 8026 at cited location ND c. 40 72 [N58 38 W3 2].

Staxigoe, 11th Jan. The PHEASANT, of Sunderland, from Shields to Barbadoes, went on shore yesterday at Duncansbey [Duncansby]: three of the crew drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,866, London, Monday January 15 1849.

Huna (Pentland Firth), 13th Jan. The PHEASANT, of Sunderland, from Shields to Barbadoes, which went on shore at Duncansbey [Duncansby] 10th inst., has since become a total wreck: materials and part of her cargo expected to be saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,870, London, Friday January 19 1849.

Huna, 23rd Jan. The PHEASANT, of Sunderland, from Shields to Barbadoes [Barbados], which went on shore 10th inst., at Duncansbey [Duncansby], has become a total wreck.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,879, London, Tuesday January 30 1849.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8472).

(Classified as brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 10 January 1849). Pheasant: this vessel was wrecked at Huna. Registration: Sunderland.
(Location of loss cited as N58 38.75 W3 6.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The classification, cargo and location of loss cited by Whittaker remain unverified, but are accepted.
Huna is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the Ness of Huna is at ND 363 738.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 August 2006.