Maritime record MHG50318 - Driver: Hilton Of Cadboll, North Sea

NMRS Report: (29/01/2007 11:50:41)
NH87NE 8006 c. 87 76
N57 46 W3 54

NLO: Hilton of Cadboll [name: NH 873 767]
Tarbat Ness [name: NH 949 878].

Lossiemouth, 17th Jan. The DRIVER, of Fraserburgh, from Sunderland to Tain Firth, with coals, stranded yesterday at Hilton [of Cadboll], near Tabetness [Tarbat Ness] lighthouse, and is likely to become a complete wreck.
Source, LL, No. 17,708, London, Wednesday, January 18 1871.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11933).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 16 January 1871). Driver: this vessel was stranded at Hilton, Tarbetness [Tarbat Ness], and was expected to become a wreck.
Registration: Banff. Built 1863. 63 tons burthern. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 46.0 W3 53.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Tarbatness Lighthouse (NH98NW 11.00) is at NH 94695 87559.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 January 2007.