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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

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Maritime - Highland
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

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.

Activities

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

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