Maritime record MHG51975 - UNKNOWN: ATLANTIC

NC55NE 8002 unlocated
NLO: Tongue [name centred NC 591 567]
Kyle of Tongue [name centred NC 58 58]
Tongue Bay [name centred NC 60 61]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheets NC56NE, NC56SE or NC66SW.
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 8 April 1739). Unknown: this vessel was cast away near Tongue, Sutherland.
Registration: Dublin.
(Location of loss cited as N58 33.0 4 25.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unclear whther the vessel was 'cast away' within the Kyle of Tongue, within Tongue Bay, of further out. It also remains unclear whether and where the vessel was subsequently stranded or foundered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 June 2008. <1>