Garibaldi: Wick Bay, North Sea
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Garibaldi: Wick Bay, North Sea
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sumburgh Head; Garibaldi
Canmore ID 274273
Site Number ND35SE 8101
NGR ND 376 506
NGR Description ND c. 376 506
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND35SE 8101 c. 376 506
N58 26.4 W3 4.1
NLO: Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506]
Wick [name: ND 362 508]
Sumburgh Head [name: HU 407 078].
Wick, 21st Apl. The GARIBALDI (smack), with coals, is ashore in this bay, likely to be a total wreck: crew saved by shore boat.
Source: LL, No. 16,855, London, Wednesday, April 22 1868.
Wick, 21st Apl. The GARIBALDI, Balfour, from Charlestown to Tromsoe [Tromso], ashore in this bay, has gone to pieces.
Source: LL, No. 16,856, London, Thursday, April 23 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11430).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 20 April 1868). Garibaldi: this vessel was wrecked in Wick Bay after being disabled off Sumburgh Head [Shetland]. Capt. Balfour.
Registration: North Shields. 36 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 26.33 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The sequence of events cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
The date of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 August 2005.
Loss (20 April 1868)
Wick, 21st Apl. The GARIBALDI (smack), with coals, is ashore in this bay, likely to be a total wreck: crew saved by shore boat.
Source: LL, No. 16,855, London, Wednesday, April 22 1868.
Wick, 21st Apl. The GARIBALDI, Balfour, from Charlestown to Tromsoe [Tromso], ashore in this bay, has gone to pieces.
Source: LL, No. 16,856, London, Thursday, April 23 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11430).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 20 April 1868). Garibaldi: this vessel was wrecked in Wick Bay after being disabled off Sumburgh Head [Shetland]. Capt. Balfour.
Registration: North Shields. 36 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 26.33 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (18 August 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The sequence of events cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
The date of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 August 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10472
Name : GARIBALDI
Latitude : 582620
Longitude : 30400
Registration : NORTH SHIELDS
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 36
Loss Day : 20
Loss Month : 4
Loss Year : 1868
Comment : Wrecked in Wick Bay after being disabled off Sumburgh Head. Capt. Balfour
Cargo : COAL
