Au Revoir: Keiss, Sinclair's Bay, North Sea

ND36SE 8006 c. 354 612

N58 32.1 W3 6.6

NLO: Keiss [name: ND 347 612]

Keiss Castle [name: ND 356 617]

Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56].

Possibly on map sheets or ND36SW.

22 December 1876, AU REVOIR, 19 yrs old, of Russia, wooden barque, 341 tons, 11 crew, Master J. Bode, Owner Bode, Wesbberg, & Co., Riga, departed Havre for Riga, in ballast, wind SE11, stranded, about quarter mile SSW of Keiss Castle, Caithness-shire.

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

Wick, 23rd Dec., 6 p.m., the AU REVOIR (Russ. barq.), Bode, from Havre to Riga, in ballast, is a total wreck at Keills: crew saved.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,554, London, Tuesday December 26 1876.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2716).

(Classified as wooden barque, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 December 1876). Au Revoir: this vessel stranded 0.25 miles SSW of Keiss Castle. Capt. Bode.

Registration: Riga. Built 1857. 341 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 32.25 W3 6.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

A location at ND c. 354 612 may be tentatively suggested for this loss. Keiss Castle (ND36SE 30.00) is at ND 3556 6175.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2004.