Rose: Lybster, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Rose: Lybster, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Wick; Lybster Bay; Rose
Canmore ID 262764
Site Number ND23SW 8006
NGR ND 24 34
NGR Description ND c. 24 34
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND23SW 8006 c. 24 34
N58 17 W3 18
NLO: Lybster [name: ND 248 355]
Lybster Bay [name centred ND 248 345]
Wick [name: ND 362 508].
Location formerly entered as ND 24 35.
Possibly on map sheets ND23NE, or ND34SW.
Wick, 21st Oct., the ROSE (schr.) of Banff, from Tayport, with coal, before reported ashore at Lybster, is full of water, and it is thought she will become a total loss.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,568, London, Friday October 24 1873.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3999).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 22 October 1873). Rose: this vessel was wrecked at Lybster.
Registration: Banff. Built 1850. 39 grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 17.75 W3 17.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location cited for the loss of this vessel is essentially arbitrary. The loss of this vessel may alternatively have occurred within the area of map sheets ND23NE, or ND34SW.
This vessel apparently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 August 2004.
Loss (22 October 1873)
Wick, 21st Oct., the ROSE (schr.) of Banff, from Tayport, with coal, before reported ashore at Lybster, is full of water, and it is thought she will become a total loss.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,568, London, Friday October 24 1873.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3999).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 22 October 1873). Rose: this vessel was wrecked at Lybster.
Registration: Banff. Built 1850. 39 grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 17.75 W3 17.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (12 August 2004)
The location cited for the loss of this vessel is essentially arbitrary. The loss of this vessel may alternatively have occurred within the area of map sheets ND23NE, ND23SE or ND34SW.
This vessel apparently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 August 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 7183
Name : ROSE
Latitude : 581745
Longitude : 31700
Date Built : 1850
Registration : BANFF
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 39
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 16
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 22
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1873
Comment : Wrecked at Lybster.
