Unknown: Sinclair's Bay, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Sinclair's Bay, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kees Bay; Keiss Bay; Wick; Pentland Firth
Canmore ID 266402
Site Number ND36SE 8023
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 8023 unlocated
NLO: Keiss [name: ND 347 612]
Keiss Castle [name: ND 356 617]
Wick [name: ND 362 508]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
Possibly on map sheets or ND36SW.
Wick, 23rd Dec., 6 p.m., a foreign schooner, name unknown, has stranded in Kees [Keiss] bay: four volunteer crew drowned: "these" (?three) of the crew yet on board.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,554, London, Tuesday December 26 [1876].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4511).
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. Kees [Keiss] Bay is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. It is presumably to be equated with Sinclair's Bay.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), possibly suggesting that she was successfully reloated.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 October 2004.
