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Unknown: Wick Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Wick Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Wick Bay; Wick Breakwater
Canmore ID 268426
Site Number ND35SE 8088
NGR ND 368 509
NGR Description ND c. 368 509
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
ND35SE 8088 c. 368 509
N58 26.5 W3 5
NLO: Wick [name: ND 361 508]
Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506].
Wick, Aug. 21, a fishing-boat belonging to Banff struck on the wreck of the breakwater today and sank.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,694, London, Tuesday August 24 [1880].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4998).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Wick Harbour (ND35SE 66.00) is centred at ND 36820 50670.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 November 2004.
