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Adelaide: Freswick Bay, North Sea
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Adelaide: Freswick Bay, North Sea
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sinclair's Bay; Adelaide
Canmore ID 285607
Site Number ND36NE 8022
NGR ND 383 675
NGR Description ND c. 383 675
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND36NE 8022 c. 383 675
N58 35.5 W3 3.7
NLO: Freswick [name: ND 370 675]
Freswick House [ND 377 670]
Freswick Bay [name: ND 383 675]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 36 56].
Formerly also entered as ND36NE 8006 at cited location ND c. 37 67 [N58 35 W3 5].
Conisbay [Canisbay], 15th Nov. The ADELAIDE (sloop), Swanson, of and for Thurso, from Shields, with coals, got ashore in Freswick bay about 8 a.m. to-day, and has become a total wreck: wreck strewed about the beach: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,099, London, Wednesday, November 15 1865.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10873).
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 15 November 1865). Adelaide: this vessel was wrecked in Freswick Bay. Capt. Swanson.
Registration: Thurso. 52nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 35.33 W3 4.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2007.
Loss (15 November 1865)
Conisbay [Canisbay], 15th Nov. The ADELAIDE (sloop), Swanson, of and for Thurso, from Shields, with coals, got ashore in Freswick bay about 8 a.m. to-day, and has become a total wreck: wreck strewed about the beach: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,099, London, Wednesday, November 15 1865.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10873).
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 15 November 1865). Adelaide: this vessel was wrecked in Freswick Bay. Capt. Swanson.
Registration: Thurso. 52nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 35.33 W3 4.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (10 May 2007)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 May 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11627
Name : ADELAIDE
Latitude : 583520
Longitude : 30400
Registration : THURSO
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 52
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 15
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1865
Comment : Wrecked in Freswick Bay. Capt. Swanson
