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Unknown: Sinclair's Bay, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)(Possible)
Site Name Unknown: Sinclair's Bay, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Freswick; Keiss
Canmore ID 285104
Site Number ND35NE 8030
NGR ND 37 56
NGR Description ND c. 37 56
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285104
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND35NE 8030 c. 37 56
N58 29 W3 5
NLO: Freswick [name: ND 370 675]
Freswick House [ND 377 670]
Freswick Bay [name: ND 383 675]
Keiss [name: ND 347 612]
Keiss Castle [name: ND 356 617]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56].
Possibly on map sheet or ND35SW.
Huna, 14th Dec. The hatch of a vessel, a bow sprit, and some barrels of tar, have driven on shore at Freswick and Keiss, Sinclair's Bay.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,573, London, Tuesday December 18 1860.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9985).
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The possible loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 December 2006.
