John Wesley: Duncansby, North Sea

ND37SE 8036 c. 39 70

N58 37 W3 3

NLO: Ness of Duncansby [name: ND 389 738]

Duncansby Head [name: ND 405 733]

Skirza Head [name: ND 393 680]

Freswick Bay [name centred ND 384 675]

Skirza [name: ND 387 672].

Possibly on map sheets or ND47SW.

Wick, 2nd Apl. The JOHN WESLEY (schr.), of Inverness, Jack, from London to Dumfries, with bone dust and super-phosphate, went on shore between Duncansby and Freswick yesterday, and is likely to become a total wreck: the vessel is quite submerged at high water, and there is little prospect of saving much of the cargo: crew saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,354, London, Thursday April 5 1860.

Wick, 4th Apl. The JOHN WESLEY, Jack, from London to Dumfries, which went on shore at Duncansby Head on the 1st Apl., has become a total wreck.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,355, London, Saturday April 7 1860.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9836).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of bone dust: date of loss cited as 1 April 1860). John Wesley: this vessel stranded between Stacks of Duncansby and Skirza Head. Capt. Jack.

Registration: inverness. Built 1855. 86 tons burthern. Length: 23m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N58 37.0 W3 2.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 November 2006.