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Unity: Sinclair's Bay, North Sea

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Unity: Sinclair's Bay, North Sea

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Sinclair Bay; Ackergill Bay; Unity

Canmore ID 269982

Site Number ND35SE 8091

NGR ND 35 54

NGR Description ND c. 35 54

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Maritime - Highland
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

ND35SE 8091 c. 35 54

N58 28 W3 7

NLO: Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56]

Ackergillshore [name: ND 358 546]

Ackergill Tower [name: ND 3528 5466]

Ackergill Links [name centred ND 332 561].

Possibly on map sheet or ND35SW.

Not to be confused with NJ90NE 8219.

Wick, 25th Sept. The UNITY, of Thurso, pavement laden, is on shore in Sinclair bay [Sinclair's Bay] and likely to be a total wreck.

Source: LL, No. 16,677, London, Wednesday, September, 25 1867.

Wick, 24th Sept. The UNITY (schnr.), Forbes, which drove on the rocks in Sinclair's bay, yesterday, was bound from Thurso to Newcastle.

Source: LL, No. 16,678, London, Thursday, September, 26 1867.

Wick, 5th Oct. The wreck, cargo, and materials of the UNITY, Forbes, from Thurso to Newcastle, which drove ashore in Sinclair bay, 23rd Sept., have been sold.

Source: LL, No. 16,687, London, Monday, October 7 1867.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11283).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 23 September 1867). Unity: this vessel stranded in Ackergill (Sinclair?) Bay. Capt. Forbes.

48 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 29 W3 7).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The equation of Ackergill Bay with Sinclair Bay (as suggested by Whittaker) is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 January 2005.

Activities

Loss (23 September 1867)

Wick, 25th Sept. The UNITY, of Thurso, pavement laden, is on shore in Sinclair bay [Sinclair's Bay] and likely to be a total wreck.

Source: LL, No. 16,677, London, Wednesday, September, 25 1867.

Wick, 24th Sept. The UNITY (schnr.), Forbes, which drove on the rocks in Sinclair's bay, yesterday, was bound from Thurso to Newcastle.

Source: LL, No. 16,678, London, Thursday, September, 26 1867.

Wick, 5th Oct. The wreck, cargo, and materials of the UNITY, Forbes, from Thurso to Newcastle, which drove ashore in Sinclair bay, 23rd Sept., have been sold.

Source: LL, No. 16,687, London, Monday, October 7 1867.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11283).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 23 September 1867). Unity: this vessel stranded in Ackergill (Sinclair?) Bay. Capt. Forbes.

48 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 29 W3 7).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (14 January 2005)

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The equation of Ackergill Bay with Sinclair Bay (as suggested by Whittaker) is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 January 2005.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 10191

Name : UNITY

Latitude : 582900

Longitude : 30700

Registration : WICK

Type : SCHOONER

Tonnage : 48

Loss Day : 23

Loss Month : 9

Loss Year : 1867

Comment : Stranded in Ackergill (Sinclair?) Bay. Capt. Forbes

Cargo : PAVEMENT

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