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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 848048
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/848048
ND35NE 8024 c. 37 56
N58 29 W3 5
NLO: Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56]
Wick [name: ND 361 508].
Possibly on map sheet or ND35SW.
Wick, 10th Oct. 'The VENUS, Linson, of Portaferry, from Dunbar to Ireland, drove from her anchors this morning, and went on shore in Sinclair's Bay, during a very heavy gale form the southward; master and three hands drowned.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9545, London, Monday October 14 1844.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7884).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 10 October 1844). Venus: this vessel stranded in Sinclair [Sinclair's] Bay. Capt. Linton (Linson?). Registration: Portaferry. 50 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N58 31.0 W3 8.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The classification and cargo cited by Whittaker remain unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 September 2005.
