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Unknown: Wick, North Sea
Boat(S) (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Wick, North Sea
Classification Boat(S) (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Wick Bay
Canmore ID 283511
Site Number ND35SE 8111
NGR ND 37 50
NGR Description ND c. 37 50
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/283511
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND35SE 8111 c. 37 50
N58 26 W3 5
NLO: Wick [name: ND 361 508]
Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506].
Possibly on map sheet ND34NE.
Wick, 31st Jan. The boats employed in landing the goods from the DUKE OF RICHMOND (s) from Aberdeen, on the 31st Jan., were lost with six men.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,370, London, Thursday February 5 1857.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9328).
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of these vessels is not noted by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 October 2006.
