Maritime record MHG52217 - SUPPLY: SKERRAY BAY, PENTLAND FIRTH
Summary
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Location
Grid reference | NC 869 660 (point) |
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Map sheet | NC86NE |
Geographical Area | MARITIME |
Map
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Full Description
NC86NE 8022 c. 870 661
N58 34.1 W3 56.6
NLO: Portskerra [name: NC 877 657]
Tongue Bay [name centred NC 60 61]
Tongue [name centred NC 591 567]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 8 October 1908). Supply: this vessel was wrecked at Skerray, near Tongue. Capt. Sellar. Registration: Peterhead.
(Location of loss cited as N58 32.50 W4 20.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Skerray Bay is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the bay in front of Portskerra village.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2008. <1>
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SHG24110 Dataset: RCAHMS. 01/2009. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 295009.
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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Mar 2 2009 12:57PM