St Clair: Littleferry, Loch Fleet, North Sea
Brigantine (19th Century)
Site Name St Clair: Littleferry, Loch Fleet, North Sea
Classification Brigantine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Dornoch Firth; Ferry Channel; St Clair
Canmore ID 267675
Site Number NH89NW 8005
NGR NH 810 954
NGR Description NH c. 810 954
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH89NW 8005 c. 810 954
N57 55.9 W4 0.6
NLO: Littleferry [name: NH 805 956]
Loch Fleet [name centred NH 790 967]
Dornoch Firth [name centred NH 87 89].
Wick, Dec. 22, ST. CLAIR, of Montrose, from Littleferry (pit props) for Newcastle, got ashore on 18th inst. whilst leaving Littleferry. She filled with water, and is likely to become a total wreck, as the vessel's back is supposed to be broken.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,488, London, Friday December 26 1879.
Littleferry (Wick), Dec. 19, ST. CLAIR brigantine, of Montrose, Official No. 20,791, Langlands, from Littleferry for Newcastle-on-Tyne (timber), in going out of the Ferry Channel yesterday afternoon, got on a bank, and now lies full of water. It is supposed she has broken her back. When the crew left her yesterday, at 7 p.m., the water was about two feet from the deck. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4895).
(Classified as brigantine, with cargo of pit props; date of loss cited as 18 December 1879). St Clair: this vessel stranded at Littleferry, Dornoch Firth [Loch Fleet].
Registration: Montrose.
(Location of loss cited as N57 56.00 W4 1.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Littleferry is situated on the N side of the entrance to Loch Fleet. The Ferry Channel is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the channel past Littleferry.
The attribution (by Whittaker) of this stranding to the Dornoch Firth is erroneous.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 November 2004.
Loss (18 December 1879)
Wick, Dec. 22, ST. CLAIR, of Montrose, from Littleferry (pit props) for Newcastle, got ashore on 18th inst. whilst leaving Littleferry. She filled with water, and is likely to become a total wreck, as the vessel's back is supposed to be broken.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,488, London, Friday December 26 1879.
Littleferry (Wick), Dec. 19, ST. CLAIR brigantine, of Montrose, Official No. 20,791, Langlands, from Littleferry for Newcastle-on-Tyne (timber), in going out of the Ferry Channel yesterday afternoon, got on a bank, and now lies full of water. It is supposed she has broken her back. When the crew left her yesterday, at 7 p.m., the water was about two feet from the deck. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4895).
(Classified as brigantine, with cargo of pit props; date of loss cited as 18 December 1879). St Clair: this vessel stranded at Littleferry, Dornoch Firth [Loch Fleet].
Registration: Montrose.
(Location of loss cited as N57 56.00 W4 1.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (1 November 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Littleferry is situated on the N side of the entrance to Loch Fleet. The Ferry Channel is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the channel past Littleferry.
The attribution (by Whittaker) of this stranding to the Dornoch Firth is erroneous.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 November 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10228
Name : ST CLAIR
Latitude : 575600
Longitude : 40100
Registration : MONTROSE
Type : BRIGANTINE
Loss Day : 18
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1879
Comment : Stranded at Littleferry, Dornoch Firth
Cargo : PIT PROPS