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Spica Gre: North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Spica Gre: North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Freswick; Pentland Firth
Canmore ID 266514
Site Number ND36NE 8016
NGR ND
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND36NE 8016 unlocated
NLO: Freswick Bay [name: ND 383 675]
Wick [name: ND 362 508]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].
See also NH89NW 8002.
Wick, 23rd Dec., a nameboard, marked "SPICA GRE" has been picked up at Freswick, and one marked "ANNA" at Golspie.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,556, London, Thursday December 28 1876.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4548).
The m,ap sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are arbitrary, being derived from the cited location of discovery of wreckage. The vessel presumably foundered out at sea, possibly beyond Scottish waters.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 October 2004.
