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Jules And Eugenie: Camarin Rock, Lybster, North Sea

Craft (19th Century)

Site Name Jules And Eugenie: Camarin Rock, Lybster, North Sea

Classification Craft (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Jules & Eugenie; Jules & Eugene; Wick; 'south Of Lybster'

Canmore ID 274585

Site Number ND23SW 8010

NGR ND 238 338

Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/274585

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

ND23SW 8010 unlocated

NLO: Lybster [name: ND 248 355].

Wick, 19th Dec. 'The JULES & EUGENE, Foursey, of Bruges, was wrecked 12 miles to the westward [sic.] of this place 11th inst.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7428, London, Saturday December 23 1837

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7265).

(Classified as Fishing Vessel: date of loss cited as 7 December 1837). Jules & Eugenie: this vessel was wrecked on Camarin Rock, South of Lybster. Capt. Foursey.

Registration: Belgian.

(Location of loss cited as N58 17.33 W3 18.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary. Camarin Rock is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.

No rig or means of fishing is specified for this vessel.

The date of loss cited by Whittaker differs from that cited in the primary account; the latter is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 September 2005.

Activities

Loss (11 December 1837)

Wick, 19th Dec. 'The JULES & EUGENE, Foursey, of Bruges, was wrecked 12 miles to the westward [sic.] of this place 11th inst.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7428, London, Saturday December 23 1837

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7265).

(Classified as Fishing Vessel: date of loss cited as 7 December 1837). Jules & Eugenie: this vessel was wrecked on Camarin Rock, South of Lybster. Capt. Foursey.

Registration: Belgian.

(Location of loss cited as N58 17.33 W3 18.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (1 September 2005)

The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary. Camarin Rock is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.

No rig or means of fishing is specified for this vessel, which evidently stranded.

The date of loss cited by Whittaker differs from that cited in the primary account; the latter is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 September 2005.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 10605

Name : JULES & EUGENIE

Latitude : 581720

Longitude : 31800

Registration : BELGIAN

Type : FV

Loss Day : 7

Loss Month : 12

Loss Year : 1837

Comment : Wrecked on Camarin Rock, south of Lybster. Capt. Foursey

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