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Ruby: Freswick, North Sea
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Ruby: Freswick, North Sea
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sinclair's Bay; Freswick Bay; Ruby
Canmore ID 272001
Site Number ND36NE 8017
NGR ND 37 67
NGR Description ND c. 37 67
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND36NE 8017 c. 37 67
N58 35 W3 5
NLO: Freswick [name: ND 370 675]
Freswick House [ND 377 670]
Freswick Bay [name: ND 383 675]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 36 56].
Freswick, 24th Feb. 'The RUBY, Wood, of and from Aberdeen, for the Westward, with fishing gear, came on shore here this morning, and is expected to become a wreck; master and mate drowned.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9352, London, Friday March 1 1844
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7835).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of fishing gear: date of loss cited as 24 February 1844). Ruby: this vessel stranded at Freswick. Capt. Wood.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1810. 75 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 35.33 W3 4.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10773
Name : RUBY
Latitude : 583520
Longitude : 30400
Date Built : 1810
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 75
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 16
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 24
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1844
Comment : Stranded at Freswick. Capt. Wood
Cargo : FISHING GEAR
