Perseverance: Freswick Bay, North Sea
Barque (19th Century)
Site Name Perseverance: Freswick Bay, North Sea
Classification Barque (19th Century)
Canmore ID 283925
Site Number ND36NE 8020
NGR ND 383 675
NGR Description ND c. 383 675
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND36NE 8020 c. 383 675
N58 35.5 W3 3.7
NLO: Freswick Bay [name: ND 383 675].
Dunnet, by Thurso, 23rd Aug. The PERSEVERANCE (barque), of St. John, N.B., Wills, from Dundee to Miramichi (partly coal-laden), in entering the Pentland Firth yesterday during a thick fog, ran ashore in Freswick Bay, and remains, making a good deal of water: sails and a portion of the rigging have been saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,543, London, Thursday August 27 1857.
Huna, 2nd Sept. The PERSEVERANCE, Wills, from Dundee to Miramichi, which ran ashore in Freswick Bay 22nd Aug., was yesterday surveyed and condemned. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9404).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 October 2006.
