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Wonder: North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Wonder: North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Keiss; Sinclair's Bay; Wonder
Canmore ID 262564
Site Number ND36SE 8012
NGR ND 35 61
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/262564
- Council Highland
- Parish Wick
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND36SE 8012 unlocated
NLO: Keiss [name: ND 347 612]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 36 56].
Wick, 30th Dec., a board marked 'WONDER, Blyth', has washed ashore at Keiss, also the lid of a chest, with two union jacks painted on it, a lifebuoy, a plank of a boat, of about 24 feet in length, some pieces of timber, &c.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,316, London, Thursday January 2 [1873].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3896).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 30 December 1872). Wonder: headboard and wreckage found at Keiss. Registration: Blyth.
(Location cited as N58 32.0 W3 7.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, being derived from the reported location of discovery of wreckage. The date cited is presumably that of report, rather than loss. The vessel presumably foundered out at sea, probably beyond Scottish waters.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 August 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13349
Name : WONDER
Latitude : 583200
Longitude : 30700
Registration : BLYTH
Loss Day : 30
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1872
Comment : Headboard and wreckage at Keiss.
