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Unknown: Lybster, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Lybster, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Lybster Harbour; Wick; Lybster Bay
Canmore ID 267566
Site Number ND23SW 8009
NGR ND 24 34
NGR Description ND c. 24 34
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND23SW 8009 c. 24 34
N58 17 W3 18
NLO: Lybster [name: ND 248 355]
Lybster Bay [name centred ND 248 345].
Possibly on map sheets ND23NE, or ND34SW.
Wick, Feb. 1 [1879], early this morning a fishing boat belonging to Clyth, in Caithness, was struck by a heavy sea while approaching Lybster Harbour, and was swamped. The whole of the crew (five in number) were drowned. Their names were Robert and Donald Adamson, John Sutherland, John Munro, and William McDonald, all unmarried except Munro. Some of the other fishing boats had a narrow escape. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4813).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Lybster Harbour (ND23SW 15.00) is centred at ND 2446 3490 and extends from ND 2446 3499 to ND 2452 3478.
The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of map sheets ND23NE, or ND34SW.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 October 2004.
