Maritime record MHG49746 - Ashley: Nairn Old Bar, Moray Firth

NMRS Report: (07/09/2006 11:04:35)
NH85NE 8006 c. 89 57
N57 35 W3 51

NLO: Nairn [name: NH 885 567].

Possibly on map sheet NH95NW.

Inverness, 25th Apl. The ASHLEY, Lambton, of Sunderland, from Newcastle to New York, got on shore below the Old Bar, to the East of Nairn. She has made a good deal of water.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,263, London, Saturday April 27 1850.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8601).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 24 April 1850). Ashley: this vessel stranded below Old Bar, East of Nairn. Capt. Lambton. Registration: Sunderland.
(Location of loss cited as N57 37.5 W3 48.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location of the former bar of the River Nairn is unclear. The former mouth of the river (before the construction of the breakwaters NH85NE 54.01 and 54.02) was apparently at NH c. 889 579, placing this stranding within the area of the entrance to Nairn Harbour (NH85NE 54.00).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 September 2006.