Fair Wind: Berriedale, North Sea
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Fair Wind: Berriedale, North Sea
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Fairwind; 'near Dunbeath'; Berridale; Fair Wind
Canmore ID 258958
Site Number ND12SW 8003
NGR ND 12 22
NGR Description ND c. 12 22
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND12SW 8003 c. 12 22
N58 11 W3 30
NLO: Berriedale [name: ND 121 229]
Dunbeath [name: ND 161 296].
2 April 1880, FAIR WIND, 17 yrs old, of Aberdeen, wooden smack, 19 tons, 3 crew, Master J. Sutherland, Owner J. Ballie, Dunbeath, Caithness, departed Portmahomack, Ross, for Dunbeath, Caithness, carrying lime, wind SSE, stranded, total loss, Berridale [Berriedale], Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
Wick, April 8, the FAIR WIND smack, of Aberdeen (lime), has been run ashore near Dunbeath.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,579, London, Monday April 12 1880.
Wick, April 9, FAIRWIND, from Lossiemouth for Dunbeath, which sprung a leak and was run ashore at Berriedale, has become a wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,580, London, Tuesday April 13 1880.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3002).
(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of lime; date of loss cited as 2 April 1880). Fair Wind: this vessel stranded at Berriedale. Capt. Sutherland.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1863. 19grt. Length: 12m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 11.00 W3 29.67).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 May 2004.
Loss (2 April 1880)
2 April 1880, FAIR WIND, 17 yrs old, of Aberdeen, wooden smack, 19 tons, 3 crew, Master J. Sutherland, Owner J. Ballie, Dunbeath, Caithness, departed Portmahomack, Ross, for Dunbeath, Caithness, carrying lime, wind SSE, stranded, total loss, Berridale [Berriedale], Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
Wick, April 8, the FAIR WIND smack, of Aberdeen (lime), has been run ashore near Dunbeath.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,579, London, Monday April 12 1880.
Wick, April 9, FAIRWIND, from Lossiemouth for Dunbeath, which sprung a leak and was run ashore at Berriedale, has become a wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,580, London, Tuesday April 13 1880.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3002).
(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of lime; date of loss cited as 2 April 1880). Fair Wind: this vessel stranded at Berriedale. Capt. Sutherland.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1863. 19grt. Length: 12m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 11.00 W3 29.67).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (18 May 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 May 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5480
Name : FAIR WIND
Latitude : 581100
Longitude : 32940
Date Built : 1863
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 19
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 12
Beam : 4
Loss Day : 2
Loss Month : 4
Loss Year : 1880
Comment : Stranded Berriedale. Capt. Sutherland
Cargo : LIME
