Maritime record MHG50155 - Lifeboat: Cromarty Firth

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 78 66 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NH76NE
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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Full Description

NMRS Report: (19/12/2006 17:11:00)
NH76NE 8020 c. 78 67
N57 41 W4 3

NLO: Cromarty [name: NH 786 677]
Cromarty Firth [name centred NH 69 67].

See also NH76NE 8019.

Cromarty, 24th Feb. The EXPRESS (sloop), of Wick, with herrings, and the LIFEBOAT (schr.), of Scarboro', from Dingwall to Newcastle, with staves, were stranded near here this evening: crews saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,497, London, Tuesday, February 26 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11206).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of staves: date of loss cited as 24 February 1867). Lifeboat: this vessel stranded near Cromarty. Registration: Scarborough.
(location of loss cited as N57 41.0 W4 1.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 December 2006.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 285336.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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