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Lady Margaret: Lybster, North Sea

Sloop (19th Century)

Site Name Lady Margaret: Lybster, North Sea

Classification Sloop (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'To The South Of Lybster Pier'; Lybster Harbour; Wick; Lybster Bay; Lady Margaret

Canmore ID 274801

Site Number ND23SW 8011

NGR ND 24 34

NGR Description ND c. 24 34

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

ND23SW 8011 c. 24 34

N58 17 W3 18

NLO: Lybster [name: ND 248 355]

Lybster Bay [name centred ND 248 345].

Wick, 12th July. 'The LADY MARGARET, from Liverpool to Brora, was driven on shore 10th instant at Lybster, during a severe gale at South, and is expected to become a complete wreck; crew saved.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7911, London, Tuesday July 16 1839.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7474).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 3 July 1839). Lady Margaret: this vessel was wrecked to the South of Lybster Pier [Lybster Harbour]. Capt. Beaton.

Registration: Greenock. 50 tons register.

(Location of loss cited as N58 17.67 W3 17.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Lybster Pier is presumably to be equated with Lybster harbour (ND23SW 15.00), which is centred at ND 2446 3490 and extends from ND 2446 3499 to ND 2452 3478.

This vessel presumably stranded.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 September 2005.

Activities

Loss (3 January 1839)

Wick, 12th July. 'The LADY MARGARET, from Liverpool to Brora, was driven on shore 10th instant at Lybster, during a severe gale at South, and is expected to become a complete wreck; crew saved.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7911, London, Tuesday July 16 1839.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7474).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 3 July 1839). Lady Margaret: this vessel was wrecked to the South of Lybster Pier [Lybster Harbour]. Capt. Beaton.

Registration: Greenock. 50 tons register.

(Location of loss cited as N58 17.67 W3 17.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (7 September 2005)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Lybster Pier is presumably to be equated with Lybster harbour (ND23SW 15.00), which is centred at ND 2446 3490 and extends from ND 2446 3499 to ND 2452 3478.

This vessel presumably stranded.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 September 2005.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 10629

Name : LADY MARGARET

Latitude : 581740

Longitude : 31700

Registration : GREENOCK

Type : SLOOP

Tonnage : 50

Tonnage Code : R

Loss Day : 3

Loss Month : 7

Loss Year : 1839

Comment : Wrecked to the south of Lybster Pier. Capt. Beaton

Cargo : SALT

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