Archaeology Notes

Event ID 830865

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND36NE 8017 c. 37 67

N58 35 W3 5

NLO: Freswick [name: ND 370 675]

Freswick House [ND 377 670]

Freswick Bay [name: ND 383 675]

Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 36 56].

Freswick, 24th Feb. 'The RUBY, Wood, of and from Aberdeen, for the Westward, with fishing gear, came on shore here this morning, and is expected to become a wreck; master and mate drowned.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9352, London, Friday March 1 1844

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7835).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of fishing gear: date of loss cited as 24 February 1844). Ruby: this vessel stranded at Freswick. Capt. Wood.

Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1810. 75 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 35.33 W3 4.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2007.