Jessie And Catherine: Seal Skerry, North Ronaldsay, Orkney, North Sea
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Jessie And Catherine: Seal Skerry, North Ronaldsay, Orkney, North Sea
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Jessie & Catherine; Seal Skerries; Dennis Head; Dennis Ness
Canmore ID 228363
Site Number HY75NE 8012
NGR HY 781 568
NGR Description HY c. 781 568
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Orkney Islands
- Parish Maritime - Orkney
- Former Region Orkney Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HY75NE 8012 c. 781 568
N59 23.8 W2 23.1
NLO: Seal Skerry [name: HY 781 568]
Dennis Head [name: HY 790 550]
Dennis Ness [name centred HY 782 557]
North Ronaldsay [name: HY 75 54].
25 February 1898 JESSIE & CATHERINE, 15 years, of Wick, wood sloop, 32 ton, 3 men. Master R. Sinclair. Owner A. Ronaldson, Pultereytown [Pulteneytown], Wick. Lerwick to Wick. Ballast. Wind S7. Seal Skerries, N. Ronaldshay, Orkney.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 825).
(Classified as wooden sloop, in ballast: date of loss cited as 25 February 1898). Jessie & Catherine: this vessel was wrecked on a skerry [Seal Skerry] 0.75 mile E of Dennis Head. Capt. Sinclair.
Registration: Wick. Built 1883. 32grt. Length: 18m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N59 23.0 W221.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4158
Name : JESSIE & CATHERINE
Latitude : 592300
Longitude : 22100
Date Built : 1883
Registration : WICK
Type : SLOOP (WOOD)
Tonnage : 32
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 18
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 25
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1898
Comment : Wrecked on skerry 0.75 mile E of Dennis Head. Capt. Sinclair
Cargo : BALLAST
