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Vy King: Wick Bay, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Vy King: Wick Bay, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Vry King
Canmore ID 251913
Site Number ND35SE 8063
NGR ND 376 506
NGR Description ND c. 376 506
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND35SE 8063 c. 376 506
N58 26.4 W3 4.1
NLO: Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506]
North Head [name: ND 384 507]
Wick [name: ND 362 508].
3 December 1891. VY KING. 34 years of Peterhead. Wood schooner. 43 ton. 3 men. Master R. Tennant. Owner J. Anderson, Peterhead. Sunderland to Littleferry. Coal. Wind SSW10. Wick Bay.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1891-92 (1893-94 [C.7069] LXXX.711).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1372).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 1 December 1891). Vry King: this vessel stranded on the North side of Wick Bay. Capt. Tennant.
Registration: peterhead. Built 1859. 45grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 26.50 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The vessel may have stranded on Proudfoot Rocks, the extensive and prominent rocks around North Head.
The form of the name of this vessel that is cited by Whittaker differs from that cited in the primary account of the loss. The latter is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 November 2003.
Loss (1 December 1891)
3 December 1891. VY KING. 34 years of Peterhead. Wood schooner. 43 ton. 3 men. Master R. Tennant. Owner J. Anderson, Peterhead. Sunderland to Littleferry. Coal. Wind SSW10. Wick Bay.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1891-92 (1893-94 [C.7069] LXXX.711).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1372).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 1 December 1891). Vry King: this vessel stranded on the North side of Wick Bay. Capt. Tennant.
Registration: peterhead. Built 1859. 45grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 26.50 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (13 November 2003)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The vessel may have stranded on Proudfoot Rocks, the extensive and prominent rocks around North Head.
The form of the name of this vessel that is cited by Whittaker differs from that cited in the primary account of the loss. The latter is preferred.
The date of loss that is cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 November 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10113
Name : VRY KING
Latitude : 582630
Longitude : 30400
Date Built : 1859
Registration : PETERHEAD
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 45
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 16
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 1
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1891
Comment : Stranded on the north side of Wick Bay. Capt. Tennant
Cargo : COAL
