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Sisters: Keiss Harbour, North Sea
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Sisters: Keiss Harbour, North Sea
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sinclair's Bay; Sisters
Canmore ID 249455
Site Number ND36SE 8010
NGR ND 351 609
NGR Description ND c. 351 609
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/249455
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND36SE 8010 c. 351 609
N58 31.9 W3 6.9
NLO: Keiss [name: ND 347 612]
Keiss Castle [name: ND 356 617]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
For Keiss harbour (ND 3513 6091), see ND36SE 27.00.
29 November 1853, SISTERS, of Port Gordon, sloop, 5 men, Thurso to Lossiemouth, wool, wind force 10, wrecked. Near Kiess [Keiss] Harbour, near Wick, by stress of weather. Crew saved. Lloyds List.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1853 (1854 (337) XLII.647)
Wick, 1st Dec. The SISTERS, (sloop) of Port Gordon, Cowie, from Thurso, was wrecked on the 29th Nov., a little to the Westward of Kiess [Keiss] Harbour; crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,386, London, Monday December 5 1853.
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 474).
(Classified as brig with cargo of pavement [stone] and wool: date of loss cited as 29 November 1853). Sisters: this vessel stranded off Keiss. Capt. Cowie. (Sloop?) Registration: Port Gordon [Portgordon].
(Location of loss cited asd N58 32.0 W3 7.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Keiss harbour (ND36SE 27.00) is at ND 3513 6091.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 May 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5077
Name : SISTERS
Latitude : 583200
Longitude : 30700
Registration : PORT GORDON
Type : BRIG
Loss Day : 29
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1853
Comment : Stranded off Keiss. Capt. Cowie (SLOOP ?)
Cargo : PAVEMENT, WOOL
