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Elizabeth Miller: Sandside Bay, Pentland Firth

Ketch (20th Century)

Site Name Elizabeth Miller: Sandside Bay, Pentland Firth

Classification Ketch (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Isauld Point; Isold Head; Thurso; North Sea; Elizabeth Miller

Canmore ID 222083

Site Number NC96NE 8006

NGR NC 963 657

NGR Description NC c. 963 657

Datum Datum not recorded

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Maritime - Highland
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NC96NE 8006 c. 963 657

N58 34 W3 47

NLO: Sandside Bay [name: ND 963 657]

Reay [name: ND 966 648]

Thurso [name: ND 115 687]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

(Classified as wooden ketch, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 19 July 1906). Elizabeth Miller: this vessel stranded at Isold Head, Sandside Bay, Caithness. Capt. Hewison.

Registration: Whitby. Built 1863. 55 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 34.5 W3 46.33).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Isauld Point [Isold Head] is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. Isauld House is at ND 973 657 and the name may apply to the ill-defined headland on the NE side of the bay, around ND 967 663.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 October 2002.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 4960

Name : ELIZABETH MILLER

Latitude : 583430

Longitude : 34620

Date Built : 1863

Registration : WHITBY

Type : KETCH (WOOD)

Tonnage : 55

Loss Day : 19

Loss Month : 7

Loss Year : 1906

Comment : Stranded Isold Head, Sandside Bay, Caithness. Capt. Hewison

Cargo : COAL

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