Unknown: North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Gab'; Keiss; 'along The Wick Coast'; 'to The North Of Sinclair's Bay'
Canmore ID 265735
Site Number ND36SE 8015
NGR ND
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND36SE 8015 unlocated
NLO: Keiss [name: ND 347 612]
Keiss Castle [name: ND 356 617]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56]
Wick [name: ND 362 508]
Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506].
See also ND36SE 8013 and ND36SE 8014.
Wick, 25th Oct., in addition to the name-board reported on the 23rd Oct., two others have been picked up at Keiss: one is five feet long, painted blue, and marked in white letters "JAEI" (probably JAEL): the lower parts of the last two letters are wanting. The second board is marked "BERT": the end of the word has been broken off. A number of battens have also been washed ashore in the vicinity of Keiss: some of them marked "L * N", others "GAB".
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,193, London, Thursday October 28 [1875].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4262).
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, being derived from the reported location of discovery of wreckage. The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 September 2004.
