Archaeology Notes

Event ID 852612

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND35SE 8122 c. 383 507

N58 26.4 W3 3.4

NLO: North Head [name: ND 384 507]

Proudfoot [name: ND 382 508]

Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506]

Wick [name: ND 362 508].

Wick, 17th May. The ELIZA (schr.), of Rosehearty, Taylor, for Stornoway, while working out of the bay yesterday, missed stays, and got on shore on Proudfoot Rocks. She is likely to become a total wreck: crew saved.

Source: LL, No. 15,014, London, Monday, May 19 1862.

Wick, 19th May. The ELIZA, Taylor, hence to Stornoway, stranded in the bay here on the 16th, has become a total wreck: cargo (empty barrels) and stores and materials saved.

Source: LL, No. 15,015, London, Thursday, May 22 1862.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10230).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of empty barrels: date of loss cited as 16 May 1862). Eliza: this vessel stranded at Proudfoot Rocks, Wick. Capt. Taylor.

Registration: Peterhead. Built 1858. 59grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 26.50 W3 4.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Proudfoot Rocks are not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the extensive and prominent rocks around North Head (centred ND 383 507).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2007.