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
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.
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