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Tysina: Charlestown, St Combs, North Sea
Galliot (19th Century)
Site Name Tysina: Charlestown, St Combs, North Sea
Classification Galliot (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Tysiena; St Coombs; 'five Miles From Fraserburgh'; Tysina
Canmore ID 206598
Site Number NK06SE 8007
NGR NK 055 635
NGR Description NK c. 055 635
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/206598
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
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.
Loss (23 December 1876)
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.
Named Location (Nlo) (11 May 2004)
NLO: St Combs [name: NK 055 632]
Charlestown [name: NK 053 634]
Fraserburgh [name: NJ 999 665].
Formerly entered as Schooner.
Note (11 May 2004)
(Location entered as NK c. 055 635 [N57 39.7 W1 54.5]). 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.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5572
Name : TYSINA
Latitude : 573940
Longitude : 15400
Date Built : 1864
Registration : DUTCH
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 71
Tonnage Code : B
Loss Day : 23
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1876
Comment : Wrecked at Charlestown, St Coombs. Capt. Poorta
Cargo : STOCK FISH
