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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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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

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.

Activities

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

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