Esk: Muckle Skerry, Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Esk: Muckle Skerry, Pentland Skerries, Pentland Firth
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Great Pentland Skerry; Great Pentland Skerries; North Sea; Esk
Canmore ID 221428
Site Number ND47NE 8011
NGR ND 465 783
NGR Description ND c. 465 783
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND47NE 8011 c. 465 783
N58 41.4 W2 55.4
NLO: Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81]
Pentland Skerries [name centred ND 470 775]
Muckle Skerry [name centred ND 465 783].
Dundee, 8th Aug. 'The ESK, Cassidy, from Brora to Tongue, was driven on shore on the Great Pentland Skerry 26th ult.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6976, London, Tuesday August 12 1834.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6948).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of stones: date of loss cited as 26 July 1834). Esk: this vessel was wrecked at the West end of Great Pentland Skerries. Capt. Cassidy.
Registration: Annan. Built 1829. 54 tons burthern. Length: 15m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 41.25 W2 55.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The inclusion of this wreck by Larn and Larn within their section DC ('North-east Scotland') is anomalous. The Pentland Skerries fall within the administrative area of Orkney, and this wreck is assigned accordingly to the quasi-administrative area of Maritime - Orkney.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 September 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 9915
Name : ESK
Latitude : 584115
Longitude : 25500
Date Built : 1829
Registration : ANNAN
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 54
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 15
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 26
Loss Month : 7
Loss Year : 1834
Comment : Wrecked at the west end of Great Pentland Skerries. Capt. Cassidy
Cargo : STONES