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Eliza: North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Eliza: North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Lybster'; Eliza
Canmore ID 285600
Site Number ND33NW 8009
NGR ND 31 35
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285600
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND33NW 8009 unlocated
NLO: Lybster [name: ND 248 355].
Wick, 7th Sept. The ELIZA (schnr.), of this port, Gunn, from Dunbeath to Stettin, with herrings, foundered off Lybster yesterday: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,042, London, Saturday, September 9 1865.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10836).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 6 September 1865). Eliza: this vessel foundered off Lybster. Capt. Gunn.
Registration: Wick. 63 nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 18.00 W3 10.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 January 2007.
Loss (6 September 1865)
Wick, 7th Sept. The ELIZA (schnr.), of this port, Gunn, from Dunbeath to Stettin, with herrings, foundered off Lybster yesterday: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,042, London, Saturday, September 9 1865.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10836).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 6 September 1865). Eliza: this vessel foundered off Lybster. Capt. Gunn.
Registration: Wick. 63 nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 18.00 W3 10.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (5 January 2007)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary .
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 January 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11602
Name : ELIZA
Latitude : 581800
Longitude : 31000
Registration : WICK
Type : SCHOONER
Tonnage : 63
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 6
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1865
Comment : Foundered off Lybster. Capt. Gunn
Cargo : HERRING
