Sea Bird: Rispond, Loch Eriboll, Atlantic
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Sea Bird: Rispond, Loch Eriboll, Atlantic
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Rispond Harbour; Pentland Firth; Sea Bird
Canmore ID 304480
Site Number NC46NE 8010
NGR NC 4513 6536
NGR Description NC c.451 653
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC46NE 8010 c.451 653
N58 32.9 W4 39.8
NLO: Rispond [name: NC 451 654]
Rispond Bay [name centred NC 456 652]
Loch Eriboll [name centred NC 44 60]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Loch Eriboll, 10th Jan. The SEA BIRD (smack), McIntosh, from Thurso, with a general cargo, broke from her moorings at Rispond, and sunk in the harbour: cargo landed in a damaged state.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 16,464, London, Friday, January 18 [1867].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11182).
(Classified as smack, with general cargo; date of loss cited as 9 January 1867). Sea Bird: this vessel sank at Rispond Harbour. Capt. McIntosh.
Registration: Wick. 22nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 33.0 W4 39.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Rispond Harbour is presumably to be equated with Rispond fishing station (NC46NE 1.00), which is centred around NC 45172 65378.
The date of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 January 2007.
Loss (9 January 1867)
Loch Eriboll, 10th Jan. The SEA BIRD (smack), McIntosh, from Thurso, with a general cargo, broke from her moorings at Rispond, and sunk in the harbour: cargo landed in a damaged state.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 16,464, London, Friday, January 18 [1867].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11182).
(Classified as smack, with general cargo; date of loss cited as 9 January 1867). Sea Bird: this vessel sank at Rispond Harbour. Capt. McIntosh.
Registration: Wick. 22nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 33.0 W4 39.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (8 January 2007)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Rispond Harbour is presumably to be equated with Rispond fishing station (NC46NE 1.00), which is centred around NC 45172 65378.
The date of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 January 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 9539
Name : SEA BIRD
Latitude : 583300
Longitude : 43900
Registration : WICK
Type : SMACK
Tonnage : 22
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 9
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1867
Comment : Sunk at Rispond Harbour. Capt. McIntosh
Cargo : GENERAL