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Teignmouth Packet: Wick Bay, North Sea
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Teignmouth Packet: Wick Bay, North Sea
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On The South Side Of Wick Bay'; Teignmouth Packet
Canmore ID 308004
Site Number ND35SE 8163
NGR ND 376 500
NGR Description ND c. 376 500
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND35SE 8163 c. 376 500
N58 26.1 W3 4.1
NLO: Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506].
Possibly on map sheet ND34NE.
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of coal and staves: date of loss cited as 1 December 1829). Teignmouth Packet: this vessel was wrecked on the South side of Wick Bay.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1819. 68 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 26.17 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 December 2010.
Loss (1 December 1829)
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of coal and staves: date of loss cited as 1 December 1829). Teignmouth Packet: this vessel was wrecked on the South side of Wick Bay.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1819. 68 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 26.17 W3 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (13 December 2010)
The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 December 2010.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 9490
Name : TEIGNMOUTH PACKET
Latitude : 582610
Longitude : 30400
Date Built : 1819
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 68
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 16
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 1
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1829
Comment : Wrecked on the south side of Wick Bay.
Cargo : COAL, STAVES
