Friends: Littleferry, Loch Fleet, North Sea
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Friends: Littleferry, Loch Fleet, North Sea
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Below Coull House'
Canmore ID 285575
Site Number NH89NW 8008
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 8008 c. 810 954
N57 55.9 W4 0.6
NLO: Littleferry [name: NH 805 956]
Loch Fleet [name centred NH 790 967].
Helmsdale, 22nd Aug. The FRIENDS (smack), of and from Montrose, for Littleferry, while taking the entrance there, on the 20th Aug., caught the ground with her heel, and remained on the sands below Coull House: crew landed.
Source, LL, No. 17,583, London, Thursday, August 25 1870.
Littleferry, 20th Aug. The FRIENDS (sloop), of Montrose, (Off. No. 15,910), Spink, from Montrose to this place, with timber, struck in entering, yesterday, and drove up to high water mark. She is now lying on the sands waterlogged.
Source, LL, No. 17,583, London, Thursday, August 25 1870.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11815).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Coul Farmhouse (NH89SW 14.00) is at NH 80961 94070.
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 loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 January 2007.
Evidence Of Loss (19 August 1870 - 20 August 1870)
Helmsdale, 22nd Aug. The FRIENDS (smack), of and from Montrose, for Littleferry, while taking the entrance there, on the 20th Aug., caught the ground with her heel, and remained on the sands below Coull House: crew landed.
Source, LL, No. 17,583, London, Thursday, August 25 1870.
Littleferry, 20th Aug. The FRIENDS (sloop), of Montrose, (Off. No. 15,910), Spink, from Montrose to this place, with timber, struck in entering, yesterday, and drove up to high water mark. She is now lying on the sands waterlogged.
Source, LL, No. 17,583, London, Thursday, August 25 1870.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11815).
Note (4 January 2007)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Coul Farmhouse (NH89SW 14.00) is at NH 80961 94070.
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 loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 January 2007.