Unknown: Helmsdale Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Pilot Vessel (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Helmsdale Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Pilot Vessel (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On The East Spit'; River Helmsdale; Unknown
Canmore ID 298224
Site Number ND01NW 8015
NGR ND 02770 15221
NGR Description ND c. 029 151
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND01NW 8015 c. 029 151
N58 6.9 W3 38.9
NLO: Helmsdale [name: ND 028 153].
See also ND01NW 8013.
Helmsdale, 22nd Feb. While the pilot boat here was engaged rendering assistance to one of the fishing boats, which was stranded on the East Spit at the harbour mouth, she was run down and almost cut in two by another fishing boat, the MORNING STAR, of Hopeman, coming in, and the chief pilot was drowned: the stranded boat has become a wreck.
Source, LL, No. 17,741, London, Saturday, February 25 1871.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11975).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Helmsdale Harbour (ND01NW 61.00) is centred at ND 03002 15154.
The vessel wrecked 'on the East Spit' may have been the Dunrobin Castle (ND01NW 8013).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 March 2009.
Loss (22 February 1871)
Helmsdale, 22nd Feb. While the pilot boat here was engaged rendering assistance to one of the fishing boats, which was stranded on the East Spit at the harbour mouth, she was run down and almost cut in two by another fishing boat, the MORNING STAR, of Hopeman, coming in, and the chief pilot was drowned: the stranded boat has become a wreck.
Source, LL, No. 17,741, London, Saturday, February 25 1871.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11975).
Note (27 March 2009)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Helmsdale Harbour (ND01NW 61.00) is centred at ND 03002 15154.
The vessel wrecked 'on the East Spit' may have been the Dunrobin Castle (ND01NW 8013).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 March 2009.
Reference (19 April 2012)
UKHO Identifier : 000898
Feature Class : Wreck
Wreck Category : Dangerous wreck
State : DEAD
Classification : Unclassified
Position (Lat/long) : 58.11558,-3.65050
Horizontal Datum : ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)
WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 58.11524,-3.65197
WGS84 Origin : 3-D Cartesian Shift (BW)
Previous Position : 58.11558,3.65050
Position Quality : Unreliable
Depth Quality : Depth unknown
Water Depth : -1
Vertical Datum : Lowest Astronomical Tide
Name : UNKNOWN
Contact Description : None reported
Original Sensor : None reported
Original Detection Year : 1929
Original Source : Other
Surveying Details : **INS STF IN 580656N, 033902W ON PLAN 1823(W).
**12.29 INS DWP ON NE1823(W).
**H4634/71 4.10.72 DELETE. COVERED BY FOUNDATIONS OF NEW BRIDGE. (MR MOARO CLUBB, HN).
Chart Symbol : DWP
Date Last Amended : 01/07/2011
Date Position Last Amended : 01/07/2011