Janet: Brough Head, Nybster, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Janet: Brough Head, Nybster, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Staxigoe; Auchingale; Auckengill; Sinclair's Bay; Janet
Canmore ID 282437
Site Number ND36SE 8035
NGR ND 371 631
NGR Description ND c. 371 631
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND36SE 8035 c. 355 617
N58 32.3 W3 6.5
NLO: Brough Head [name: ND 355 617]
Nybster [name: ND 365 634]
Auckengill [name centred ND 367 643]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 36 56].
Staxigoe, 11th Jan. The JANET, (schr.), of and from Port Gordon [Portgordon] to Scrabster, went on shore during a heavy gale from SE yesterday, at Auchingale [Auckengill]: one man drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,866, London, Monday January 15 1849.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8471).
(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast: date of loss cited as 10 January 1849). Janet: this vessel stranded at Brough Head, Nybster. Capt. Campbell.
Registration: Banff. Built 1842. 66 tons burthern. Length: 17m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 33.0 W3 5.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 August 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10563
Name : JANET
Latitude : 583300
Longitude : 30500
Date Built : 1842
Registration : BANFF
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 66
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 17
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 10
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1849
Comment : Stranded at Brough Head, Nybster. Capt. Campbell
Cargo : BALLAST
