Maritime record MHG50351 - Valiant: Riff Bank, Fort George, Inner Moray Firth

NMRS Report: (19/02/2007 13:03:30)
NH75NE 8008 c. 76 56
N57 35 W4 4

NLO: Fort George [name: NH 762 567]
Inverness [name: NH 665 455].

Caledonian Canal, 9th Mar. The VALIANT (smack), of and for Port Madoc [Porthmadoc], from Cromarty Firth, with potatoes, ran upon the Riff bank, below Fort George, during a thick snow shower yesterday, and immediately broke up: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,576, London, Saturday, March 12 1864.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10598).

(Classified as smack, with cargo of potatoes: date of loss cited as 8 March 1864). Valiant: this vessel was wrecked on Riff Bank, near Fort George. Reghistration: Portmadoc.
(Location of loss cited as N57 35.0 W4 6.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Fort George (NH75NE 3.00) is at NH 76079 56674.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 February 2007.