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Jane Cameron: North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Jane Cameron: North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near Lybster'; Jane Cameron
Canmore ID 285270
Site Number ND23SW 8013
NGR ND 24 34
NGR Description ND c. 24 34
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND23SW 8013 c. 24 34
N58 17 W3 18
NLO: Lybster [name: ND 248 355]
Lybster Bay [name centred ND 248 345].
Formerly entered in error as NT29SE 8026 at cited location NT c. 287 920 [N56 6.9 W3 8.8].
Formerly entered at cited location ND c. 246 347 [N58 17.7 W3 17.2].
Lybster, 16th Sept. The JANE CAMERON (schr.), of Kirkcaldy, Cameron, bound to Rotterdam, with herrings, after being hauled out of the harbour on the 11th Sept., drifted on the rocks to the Eastward, but was assisted off and hauled back into the harbour, making 15 inches water per hour, and with loss of two anchors and rudder unshipped.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 16,672, London, Thursday, September, [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11278).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 11 September 1867). Jane Cameron: this vessel stranded near Lybster. Capt. Cameron.
Registration: Kirkcaldy.
(Location of loss cited as N58 17.75 W3 17.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Lybster Harbour (ND23SW 15.00) is centred around ND 24466 34861.
The vessel was evidently successfully recovered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 December 2006.
Evidence Of Loss (11 September 1867)
Lybster, 16th Sept. The JANE CAMERON (schr.), of Kirkcaldy, Cameron, bound to Rotterdam, with herrings, after being hauled out of the harbour on the 11th Sept., drifted on the rocks to the Eastward, but was assisted off and hauled back into the harbour, making 15 inches water per hour, and with loss of two anchors and rudder unshipped.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 16,672, London, Thursday, September, [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11278).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 11 September 1867). Jane Cameron: this vessel stranded near Lybster. Capt. Cameron.
Registration: Kirkcaldy.
(Location of loss cited as N58 17.75 W3 17.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (14 December 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Lybster Harbour (ND23SW 15.00) is centred around ND 24466 34861.
The vessel was evidently successfully recovered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 December 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13167
Name : JANE CAMERON
Latitude : 581745
Longitude : 31700
Registration : KIRKCALDY
Type : SCHOONER
Loss Day : 11
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1867
Comment : Stranded near Lybster. Capt. Cameron
Cargo : HERRING
