Maritime record MHG50633 - Margaret: Dunnet Sands, Dunnet Bay, Pentland Firth

NMRS Report: (08/05/2007 10:06:43)
ND26NW 8019 c. 21 69
N58 36 W3 22

NLO: Dunnet Bay [name centred ND 198 704]
Thurso [name: ND 115 687]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheet ND27SW.

(Classified as brigantine, with cargo of tobacco: date of loss cited as 7 May 1793). Margaret: this vessel stranded on Dunnet Sands. Capt. Heartwell. Registration: Port Glasgow.
(Location of loss cited as N58 36.5 W3 21.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The Dunnet Sands are not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map; the name presumably applies to the extensive area of sands that is depicted around the SE end of Dunnet Bay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 May 2007.