St Johan: Sinclair's Bay, North Sea

ND36SE 8032 unlocated

NLO: Keiss [name: ND 347 612]

Keiss Castle [name: ND 356 617]

Wick [name: ND 362 508]

Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Possibly on map sheets or ND36SW.

Wick, 30th Nov. 'The ST. JOHAN, Alguist, from St. Petersburg to Liverpool, was driven on shore this morning, and it is supposed cannot be got off. Crew saved, cargo expected to be saved.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6488, London, Tuesday December 8 1829.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6671).

(Classified as brig, with cargo of timber and iron: date of loss cited as 30 November 1829). St John (St Johan?): this vessel stranded in Keiss [Sinclair's] Bay, and was not expected to get off. Capt. Alguist. Registration: [St] Petersburg.

(Location of loss cited as N58 32.0 W3 7.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Kiess or Keiss Bay is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.

The classification and cargo cited by Whittaker remain unverified.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 May 2005.