Archaeology Notes

Event ID 840374

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NK06SE 8007 c. 055 635

N57 39.7 W1 54.5

NLO: St Combs [name: NK 055 632]

Charlestown [name: NK 053 634]

Fraserburgh [name: NJ 999 665].

Formerly entered as Schooner.

23 December 1876, TYSINA, 12 yrs old, of Holland, Bureau Veritas 3/3, G.1.1., for 3 yrs from 7.76, last survey 10.76, wooden schooner, 71 tons, 4 crew, Master and Owner W. J. Poorta, Wildervank, departed Bergen for Amsterdam, carrying stockfish, wind SE11, stranded, St Coombs [St Combs], 5 miles from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).

Fraserburgh, 25th Dec., the galliot TYSIENA, of Wildervank, Poorta master, from Bergen to Amsterdam, with fish, is ashore at St Combs, 5 miles S of Fraserburgh, and will likely become a total wreck: crew saved by fishing boat.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,555, London, Wednesday December. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2739).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of stockfish: date of loss cited as 23 December 1876). Tysina: this vessel was wrecked at Charlestown, St Coombs [St Combs]. Capt. Poorta.

Registration: Dutch. Built 1864. 71 tons burthern.

(Location of loss cited as N57 39.67 W1 54.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

The classification cited by Whittaker differs from that cited in the primary account of the loss; the latter is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2004.