Westa: Embo, North Sea
Barque (19th Century)
Site Name Westa: Embo, North Sea
Classification Barque (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Vesta; Golspie; 'four Miles East Of Dornoch'; 'between Embo And Coul'; 'on The Embo Shore'; Coull; Coul Links; Coul Sands; Westa (Vesta ?)
Canmore ID 258504
Site Number NH89SE 8001
NGR NH 81 93
NGR Description NH c. 81 93
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH89SE 8001 c. 81 93
N57 55 W4 1
NLO: Dornoch [name: NH 798 895]
Coul [name: NH 811 941]
Coul Links [name centred NH 812 945]
Embo [name: NH 818 928]
Littleferry [name: NH 805 956]
Golspie [name: NH 832 999]
Golspie Links [name centred NH 820 979].
Formerly also entered as NH89SE 8003.
See also NH89NW 8004.
23 December 1876, WESTA, 10 yrs old, of Germany, wooden barque, 359 tons, 11 crew, Master W. F. Lindiman, Owner L. Olofssen, departed Granton for Kiel, carrying coal, wind F11, stranded, 4 miles E. of Dornoch, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2741).
Wick, 23rd Dec., two schooners are ashore at Golspie, one named the VESTA: crews reported lost.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,555, London, Wednesday December 27 1876.
Glasgow, 25th Dec., the VESTA (Russ. barq.), Lindemann, from Granton to Kiel, with coal, was totally wrecked on the Embo shore, 22nd Dec.: crew saved. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4529).
(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 23 December 1876). Westa (Vesta?): this vessel stranded 4 miles East [sic.] of Dornoch, between Embo and Coull [Coul]. Capt. Lindemann.
Registration: Finnish. Built 1866. 359 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N57 55.00 W3 59.75).
I G Whitaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. This vessel apparently stranded on the southern end of Coul Links or Sands, about 5km NNE of Dornoch.
The date of loss that is cited by Whittaker differs from that cited in the primary account; the latter is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2004.
Loss (22 December 1876)
23 December 1876, WESTA, 10 yrs old, of Germany, wooden barque, 359 tons, 11 crew, Master W. F. Lindiman, Owner L. Olofssen, departed Granton for Kiel, carrying coal, wind F11, stranded, 4 miles E. of Dornoch, Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2741).
Wick, 23rd Dec., two schooners are ashore at Golspie, one named the VESTA: crews reported lost.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,555, London, Wednesday December 27 1876.
Glasgow, 25th Dec., the VESTA (Russ. barq.), Lindemann, from Granton to Kiel, with coal, was totally wrecked on the Embo shore, 22nd Dec.: crew saved. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4529).
(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 23 December 1876). Westa (Vesta?): this vessel stranded 4 miles East [sic.] of Dornoch, between Embo and Coull [Coul]. Capt. Lindemann.
Registration: Finnish. Built 1866. 359 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N57 55.00 W3 59.75).
I G Whitaker 1998.
Note (11 May 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. This vessel apparently stranded on the southern end of Coul Links or Sands, about 5km NNE of Dornoch.
The date of loss that is cited by Whittaker differs from that cited in the primary account; the latter is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5574
Name : WESTA (VESTA ?)
Latitude : 575500
Longitude : 35945
Date Built : 1866
Registration : FINNISH
Type : BARQUE (WOOD)
Tonnage : 359
Tonnage Code : R
Loss Day : 23
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1876
Comment : Stranded 4 miles E of Dornoch. Between Embo and Coull. Capt. Lindemann
Cargo : COAL
