Andrew Longmore: Proudfoot Rocks, North Head, Wick Bay, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Andrew Longmore: Proudfoot Rocks, North Head, Wick Bay, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Proudford
Canmore ID 270262
Site Number ND35SE 8092
NGR ND 383 507
NGR Description ND c. 383 507
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND35SE 8092 c. 383 507
N58 26.4 W3 3.4
NLO: North Head [name: ND 384 507]
Proudfoot [name: ND 382 508]
Wick [name: ND 362 508]
Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506].
Not to be confused with ND37NW 8018.
Wick, Dec. 30, 11 a.m., ANDREW LONGMORE schooner, Moore master, from Riisoer (billets), is on shore at Proudford [Proudfoot], Wick Bay: likely total wreck: crew saved by rocket apparatus.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,116, London, Saturday December 31 1881.
ANDREW LONGMORE, salvors are busy landing stores and materials, by dragging through the surf. No boat can lie alongside, and cargo cannot be got at until better weather. Vessel much strained and breaking up. (Wick, Dec. 31).
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,118, London, Tuesday January 3 1882.
ANDREW LONGMORE schooner, after having jettisoned part cargo warped off this tide and is being warped into Wick Bay. (Wick, Jan. 3, 12.40 p.m.).
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,119, London, Wednesday January 4 [1882].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5313).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. This vessel presumably stranded on the Proudfoot Rock or Rocks. These are not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the extensive and prominent rocks around North Head.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998). presumably on account of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 February 2005.
