Maritime record MHG50374 - Lotus: Dornoch Firth

NMRS Report: (27/02/2007 12:58:21)
NH69SW 8001 c. 61 90
N57 53 W4 21

NLO: Bonar Bridge [name: NH 611 916]
Dornoch Firth [name centred NH 87 89].

Possibly on map sheet NH68NW.

Bonar, 1st Sept. The LOTUS (schr.), of Ardrossan, McGregor, from Liverpool to this place and Helmsdale, with tar and butter, drifted on the rocks here on the 28th Aug., fell over as the tide ebbed, and now lies on her side, with her masts in the water: crew and about half the cargo saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,415, London, Saturday, September 5 1863.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10422).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of tar and butter: date of loss cited as 28 August 1863). Lotus: this vessel stranded near Bonar [Bridge]. Registration: Ardrossan.
(Location of loss cited as N57 53.0 W4 20.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2007.