Tarlair: Whaligoe, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Tarlair: Whaligoe, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Whaleegoe; 'a Little To The North Of The Fish Curing Station At Whaligoe'; Tarlair
Canmore ID 252362
Site Number ND34SW 8003
NGR ND 32 41
NGR Description ND c. 32 41
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND34SW 8003 c. 32 41
N58 21 W3 10
NLO: Whaligoe [name: ND 320 403].
Possibly on map sheet ND33NW.
Formerly entered as Unlocated.
8 May 1889. TARLAIR. 19 years of Peterhead. Wood trading schooner. 85 ton. 5 men. Master A. Wilkinson. Owner J.S. Wood, Peterhead. Peterhead to Castlebay. Fishing stock. Abandoned and drifted to land near Wick, condemned. Calm. Off Whaleegoe [Whaligoe], Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1656).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of fishing stock: date of loss cited as 8 May 1889). Tarlair: this vessel was wrecked a little to the N of the fish curing station at Whaligoe. Capt. Williamson.
Registration: Peterhead. Built 1870. 91grt. Length: 23m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 21.00 W3 9.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. A fish curing station (ND34SW 73) is noted at ND 3204 4032 and a fishing station (ND34SW 121) at ND 3213 4028.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 December 2003.
Loss (8 May 1889)
8 May 1889. TARLAIR. 19 years of Peterhead. Wood trading schooner. 85 ton. 5 men. Master A. Wilkinson. Owner J.S. Wood, Peterhead. Peterhead to Castlebay. Fishing stock. Abandoned and drifted to land near Wick, condemned. Calm. Off Whaleegoe [Whaligoe], Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1656).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of fishing stock: date of loss cited as 8 May 1889). Tarlair: this vessel was wrecked a little to the N of the fish curing station at Whaligoe. Capt. Williamson.
Registration: Peterhead. Built 1870. 91grt. Length: 23m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 21.00 W3 9.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (1 December 2003)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. A fish curing station (ND34SW 73) is noted at ND 3204 4032 and a fishing station (ND34SW 121) at ND 3213 4028.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 December 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4016
Name : TARLAIR
Latitude : 582100
Longitude : 30900
Date Built : 1870
Registration : PETERHEAD
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 91
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 23
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 8
Loss Month : 5
Loss Year : 1889
Comment : Wrecked a little north of the fish curing station at Whaligoe. Capt. Williamson
Cargo : FISHING STOCK
