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Alice: North Sea
Barque (19th Century)
Site Name Alice: North Sea
Classification Barque (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sinclair's Bay; Ackergill; Wick
Canmore ID 266516
Site Number ND35SE 8083
NGR ND
NGR Description Unlocated
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/266516
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND35SE 8083 unlocated
NLO: Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56]
Ackergill Links [name centred ND 342 565]
Ackergill Tower [name: ND 3528 5466]
Ackergillshore [name: ND 358 544]
Wick [name: ND 362 508].
Possibly on map sheets ND35NW, or ND35SW.
Wick, 23rd Dec., some wreckage and a nameboard marked "ALICE" have come ashore near here.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,556, London, Thursday December 28 1876.
Wick, 7th Mar., information has been received here from Norway that the chest found on 1st Jan., at Ackergill, belonged to the second mate of the ALICE (barq.), of Moss, of which vessel no report has been received since 9th Dec., 1876, when she sailed from Sunderland for Christiania, coal laden. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4550).
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are arbitrary. 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.
