Dahinda: Proudfoot Rocks, North Head, Wick Bay, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Dahinda: Proudfoot Rocks, North Head, Wick Bay, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'At Proudfoot'; 'near Proudfoot Rocks'; Dahinda
Canmore ID 284450
Site Number ND35SE 8115
NGR ND 383 507
NGR Description ND c. 383 507
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND35SE 8115 c. 383 507
N58 26.4 W3 3.4
NLO: North Head [name: ND 384 507]
Proudfoot [name: ND 382 508]
Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506]
Wick [name: ND 362 508].
Wick, ---. The DAHINDA (schr.), from Newcastle, with coals, drifted through the Sound, near the Proudfoot rocks and grounded on the 28th Feb., she has since bilged, and will become a total wreck: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,014, London, Friday March 4 1859.
Wick, 10th Mar. The DAHINDA, of this port, from Newcastle, which was stranded on the 28th Feb., at Proudfoot, has broken up: considerable portions of her hull, spars, &c., have been floated round to Broadhaven and been sold.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,022, London, Monday March 14 1859.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9649).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 28 February 1859). Dahinda: this vessel was wrecked near [the] Proudfoot Rocks.
Registration: Wick. 113 nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 26.50 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The Proudfoot Rocks are not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the extensive and prominent rocks around North Head (centred ND 383 507).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 November 2006.
Loss (28 February 1859)
Wick, ---. The DAHINDA (schr.), from Newcastle, with coals, drifted through the Sound, near the Proudfoot rocks and grounded on the 28th Feb., she has since bilged, and will become a total wreck: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,014, London, Friday March 4 1859.
Wick, 10th Mar. The DAHINDA, of this port, from Newcastle, which was stranded on the 28th Feb., at Proudfoot, has broken up: considerable portions of her hull, spars, &c., have been floated round to Broadhaven and been sold.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,022, London, Monday March 14 1859.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9649).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 28 February 1859). Dahinda: this vessel was wrecked near [the] Proudfoot Rocks.
Registration: Wick. 113 nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 26.50 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (15 November 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The Proudfoot Rocks are not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the extensive and prominent rocks around North Head (centred ND 383 507).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 November 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5218
Name : DAHINDA
Latitude : 582630
Longitude : 30400
Registration : WICK
Type : SCHOONER
Tonnage : 113
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 28
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1859
Comment : Wrecked near Proudfoot Rocks.
Cargo : COAL
