Eliza: Proudfoot Rocks, North Head, Wick Bay, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Eliza: Proudfoot Rocks, North Head, Wick Bay, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Eliza
Canmore ID 286669
Site Number ND35SE 8122
NGR ND 383 507
NGR Description ND c. 383 507
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND35SE 8122 c. 383 507
N58 26.4 W3 3.4
NLO: North Head [name: ND 384 507]
Proudfoot [name: ND 382 508]
Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506]
Wick [name: ND 362 508].
Wick, 17th May. The ELIZA (schr.), of Rosehearty, Taylor, for Stornoway, while working out of the bay yesterday, missed stays, and got on shore on Proudfoot Rocks. She is likely to become a total wreck: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,014, London, Monday, May 19 1862.
Wick, 19th May. The ELIZA, Taylor, hence to Stornoway, stranded in the bay here on the 16th, has become a total wreck: cargo (empty barrels) and stores and materials saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,015, London, Thursday, May 22 1862.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10230).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of empty barrels: date of loss cited as 16 May 1862). Eliza: this vessel stranded at Proudfoot Rocks, Wick. Capt. Taylor.
Registration: Peterhead. Built 1858. 59grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 26.50 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Proudfoot Rocks are not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the extensive and prominent rocks around North Head (centred ND 383 507).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2007.
Loss (16 May 1862)
Wick, 17th May. The ELIZA (schr.), of Rosehearty, Taylor, for Stornoway, while working out of the bay yesterday, missed stays, and got on shore on Proudfoot Rocks. She is likely to become a total wreck: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,014, London, Monday, May 19 1862.
Wick, 19th May. The ELIZA, Taylor, hence to Stornoway, stranded in the bay here on the 16th, has become a total wreck: cargo (empty barrels) and stores and materials saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,015, London, Thursday, May 22 1862.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10230).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of empty barrels: date of loss cited as 16 May 1862). Eliza: this vessel stranded at Proudfoot Rocks, Wick. Capt. Taylor.
Registration: Peterhead. Built 1858. 59grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 26.50 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (27 February 2007)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The Proudfoot Rocks are not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the extensive and prominent rocks around North Head (centred ND 383 507).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10412
Name : ELIZA
Latitude : 582630
Longitude : 30400
Date Built : 1858
Registration : PETERHEAD
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 59
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 19
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 16
Loss Month : 5
Loss Year : 1862
Comment : Stranded at Proudfoot Rocks, Wick. Capt. Taylor
Cargo : EMPTY BARRELS
