Maritime record MHG52232 - QUEEN BESS: TORRISDALE BAY, ATLANTIC

NC66SE 8009 c. 69 61
N58 31 W4 15
NLO: Bettyhill [name: NC 706 620]
Torrisdale Bay [name centred NC 690 623]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheet NC76SW.
(Classified as wooden dandy, in ballast: date of loss cited as 17 May 1913). Queen Bess: this vessel stranded [at the] mouth of [the] River Naver.
Registration: Great Yarmouth. Built 1886. 72 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 31.67 W4 14.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The available accounts presumably indicate that the loss took place at or near the ill-defined mouth of the River Naver, which debouches into Torrisdale Bay at NC c. 69 61, opposite Bettyhill. The area is one of extensive (and presumably migratory) sand dunes.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 June 2008. <1>