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Mathilde: North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Mathilde: North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Moray Firth; 'between Latheronwheel And Lybster'; 'forse, Near Lybster'; Wick
Canmore ID 266290
Site Number ND13SE 8003
NGR ND
NGR Description Unlocated
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/266290
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND13SE 8003 unlocated
NLO: Latheronwheel [name: ND 190 325]
Wick [name: ND 362 508]
Lybster [name: ND 248 355]
Forse [name: ND 220 341].
Possibly beyond Scottish waters.
Wick, 6th Dec., 1.6 p.m., a ship's nameboard, marked "MATHILDE", has come ashore at Latheronwheel: also a figurehead and some broken wreckage at Forse, near Lybster.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,541, London, Saturday December 9 [1876].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4475).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as December 1876). Matilde: nameboard and wreckage washed ashore between Latheronwheel and Lybster.
(Location of loss cited as N58 17.00 W3 20.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker for the discovery of wreckage. The vessel presumably foundered out at sea, possibly beyond Scottish waters.
The date cited is that of the reported discovery of wreckage.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 October 2004.
Loss (6 December 1876)
Wick, 6th Dec., 1.6 p.m., a ship's nameboard, marked "MATHILDE", has come ashore at Latheronwheel: also a figurehead and some broken wreckage at Forse, near Lybster.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,541, London, Saturday December 9 [1876].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4475).
(No classification or cargo specified: date cited as December 1876). Matilde: nameboard and wreckage washed ashore between Latheronwheel and Lybster.
(Location of loss cited as N58 17.00 W3 20.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (5 October 2004)
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker for the discovery of wreckage. The vessel presumably foundered out at sea, possibly beyond Scottish waters.
The date cited is that of the reported discovery of wreckage.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 October 2004.
