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Glasgow: North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Glasgow: North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near Wick'; Glasgow
Canmore ID 268805
Site Number ND34NE 8018
NGR ND 37 49
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/268805
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND34NE 8018 unlocated
NLO: Wick [name: ND 361 508]
Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506].
Possibly on map sheet ND34NE.
The GLASGOW, of Glasgow, from Gothenburg to Ireland, was lost near Wick 7th inst. One man drowned. Most of the cargo will be saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4838, London, Tuesday January 18 1814.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5790).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 7 January 1814). Glasgow: this vessel was lost near Wick.
Registration: Scottish.
(Location of loss cited N58 26.00 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentiallly arbitrary. It remains unclear whether the vessel stranded or foundered, but the cited expectation of the recovery of the cargo suggests the former.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 November 2004.
Loss (7 January 1814)
The GLASGOW, of Glasgow, from Gothenburg to Ireland, was lost near Wick 7th inst. One man drowned. Most of the cargo will be saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4838, London, Tuesday January 18 1814.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5790).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 7 January 1814). Glasgow: this vessel was lost near Wick.
Registration: Scottish.
(Location of loss cited N58 26.00 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (26 November 2004)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentiallly arbitrary. It remains unclear whether the vessel stranded or foundered, but the cited expectation of the recovery of the cargo suggests the former.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 November 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 8341
Name : GLASGOW
Latitude : 582600
Longitude : 30400
Registration : SCOTTISH
Loss Day : 7
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1814
Comment : Lost near Wick.
