Maritime record MHG50030 - Farmers: Pentland Firth

NMRS Report: (27/04/2007 12:18:02)
ND17SW 8040 unlocated

NLO: Holborn Head [name: ND 109 716]
Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Inverness, 15th Aug. The FARMERS, of Wick, was abandoned off Holborn Head 10th Aug., and disappeared during the night: crew landed at Scrabster.
Source: LL, No. 16,643, London, Friday, August, 16 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11270).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 10 August 1867). Falmers (Farmers?): this vessel was abandoned off Holborn Head, and disappeared. Registration: Wick.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40.0 W3 35.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the cited location of abandonment. It remains unclear whether and where the vessel subsequently stranded or foundered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 November 2006.