Florida: Dunbeath Bay, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Florida: Dunbeath Bay, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Florida
Canmore ID 221871
Site Number ND12NE 8004
NGR ND 164 291
NGR Description ND c. 164 291
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND12NE 8004 c. 164 291
N58 14.6 W3 25.5
NLO: Dunbeath Bay [name centred ND 164 291]
Dunbeath [name: ND 161 296].
Location formerly entered as ND c. 166 293 [N58 14.7 W3 25.3].
19 April 1878, FLORIDA, 3 yrs old, of Wick, Lloyd's 12 A 1, last survey 10.75, wooden schooner, 99 tons, 6 crew, Master J. Milne, Owner D. Leith, Wick, departed Konigsberg for Small Isles, Jura, carrying barley, wind SSE6, stranded, Dunbeath Bay, 21 miles S.W. of Wick, Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).
Wick, 19th Apl., 9.27, FLORIDA, from Konigsberg to Campbeltown, barley, on shore at Dunbeath, near Wick, and likely to become a wreck.
Wick, 19th Apl., the FLORIDA has become a total wreck: cargo all lost.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,966, London, Tuesday April 23 1878.
Wick, 20th Apl., the FLORIDA, of this port, Milne, from Konigsberg to Small isles (Jura)(barley), got ashore on rocks at Dunbeath, yesterday, at 6.30 p.m., and began to break up immediately. The crew were taken off the wreck by a boat from the shore.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,966, London, Tuesday April 23 1878.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2864).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of barley: date of loss cited as 19 April 1878). Florida: this vessel stranded [in] Dunbeath Bay. Capt. Milne.
Registration: Wick. Built 1875. 99 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N58 14.50 W3 25.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 September 2002.
Loss (19 April 1878)
19 April 1878, FLORIDA, 3 yrs old, of Wick, Lloyd's 12 A 1, last survey 10.75, wooden schooner, 99 tons, 6 crew, Master J. Milne, Owner D. Leith, Wick, departed Konigsberg for Small Isles, Jura, carrying barley, wind SSE6, stranded, Dunbeath Bay, 21 miles S.W. of Wick, Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).
Wick, 19th Apl., 9.27, FLORIDA, from Konigsberg to Campbeltown, barley, on shore at Dunbeath, near Wick, and likely to become a wreck.
Wick, 19th Apl., the FLORIDA has become a total wreck: cargo all lost.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,966, London, Tuesday April 23 1878.
Wick, 20th Apl., the FLORIDA, of this port, Milne, from Konigsberg to Small isles (Jura) (barley), got ashore on rocks at Dunbeath, yesterday, at 6.30 p.m., and began to break up immediately. The crew were taken off the wreck by a boat from the shore.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,966, London, Tuesday April 23 1878.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2864).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of barley: date of loss cited as 19 April 1878). Florida: this vessel stranded [in] Dunbeath Bay. Capt. Milne.
Registration: Wick. Built 1875. 99 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N58 14.50 W3 25.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (26 September 2002)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 September 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4445
Name : FLORIDA
Latitude : 581430
Longitude : 32500
Date Built : 1875
Registration : WICK
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 99
Tonnage Code : R
Loss Day : 19
Loss Month : 4
Loss Year : 1878
Comment : Stranded Dunbeath Bay. Capt. Milne
Cargo : BARLEY
