What is recorded here

Dunrobin Castle was a Wick fishing boat, not a castle at all. She struck the Helmsdale coast on 22 February 1871, and every crew member came back alive. The name still floats free of the stone tower it borrowed, carrying salt and danger instead of grandeur.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dunrobin Castle: Helmsdale, North Sea as Craft (19th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Dunrobin Castle, near Helmsdale on the North Sea, was built in the 19th century as a country house for the Earls of Sutherland, a prominent Scottish noble family. It is important as an example of Scottish architectural heritage and as a historic seat of one of the region's most influential landholding clans.

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