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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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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

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.

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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

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