Maritime record MHG51943 - CASTLE VARECH: RABBIT ISLANDS, TONGUE BAY, ATLANTIC

NC66SW 8006 c. 60 63
N58 32 W4 24
NLO: Rabbit Islands [name centred NC 605 635]
Tongue Bay [name centred NC 60 61]
Kyle of Tongue [name centred NC 58 58]
Cape Wrath [name: NC 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheet NC56SE.
(Classified as wooden ketch: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as October 1928). Castle Varech: this vessel stranded at Tongue Island, and became a constructive total loss.
Registration: Wick. Built 1898. 41grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 33.0 W4 25.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Tongue Island is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but is probably to be equated with one of the Rabbit Islands, to the W of Tongue Bay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 June 2008. <1>