Express: Rerwick Bay, North Sea
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Express: Rerwick Bay, North Sea
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Express
Canmore ID 252881
Site Number NC80SW 8002
NGR NC 81 02
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/252881
- Council Highland
- Parish Golspie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC80SW 8002 unlocated
27 November 1885, EXPRESS, 19 yrs old, registered Norway, wooden brig, 320 tons, 9 crew. Master H. Cornelinssen, Owner H. Cornelinssen & Co., Laurvig. Departed Liverpool for Newcastle-Upon-Tyne carrying salt. Wind SSE8, stranded Rerwick Bay, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1897).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 27 November 1885). Express: this vessel stranded at Rerwick Bay, Sutherland. Capt. Cornelinssen.
Registration: Norwegian. Built 1866. 32o tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 0.0 W4 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker, as is the attribution of the loss to the North Sea rather than the Pentland Firth.
The location of Rerwick Bay cannot be determined from the available map evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 December 2003.
Loss (27 November 1885)
27 November 1885, EXPRESS, 19 yrs old, registered Norway, wooden brig, 320 tons, 9 crew. Master H. Cornelinssen, Owner H. Cornelinssen & Co., Laurvig. Departed Liverpool for Newcastle-Upon-Tyne carrying salt. Wind SSE8, stranded Rerwick Bay, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1897).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 27 November 1885). Express: this vessel stranded at Rerwick Bay, Sutherland. Capt. Cornelinssen.
Registration: Norwegian. Built 1866. 320 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 0.0 W4 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (16 December 2003)
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker, as is the attribution of the loss to the North Sea rather than the Pentland Firth.
The location of Rerwick Bay cannot be determined from the available map evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 December 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3479
Name : EXPRESS
Latitude : 580000
Longitude : 40000
Date Built : 1866
Registration : NORWEGIAN
Type : BRIG (WOOD)
Tonnage : 320
Loss Day : 27
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1885
Comment : Stranded Rerwick Bay, Sutherland. Capt. Cornelinssen
Cargo : SALT