Maritime record MHG46488 - William And Lydia: North Sea

NMRS Report: (27/01/2004)
NJ49SW 8001 unlocated

NLO: Noss Head [name: HU 554 398].

WILLIAM AND LYDIA, 8/287 of London, 48 ton, lost 12/9/1884. Smack. About 35 miles S. of Noss Head, Caithness. Struck a floating object.
Source: PP Report of joint committee of the Admiralty and the Board of Trade on floating derelicts. Appendix F. List of British vessels totally lost through striking floating or submerged wreckage during the ten years end 30 June 1893 (1894 LXXVI.97).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1252).

12th September 1884, WILLIAM AND LYDIA, 22 yrs old, registered London, wooden smack, 48 tons, 7 crew. Master A. Spindler, Owner R. Melhuish, New Clee, Lincolnshire. Departed Grimsby for Westra, Orkneys, carrying salted fish, struck floating wreck, wind S by E 3, about 35 miles S. of Noss Head, Caithness-shire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and [record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1989).

(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of salted fish: date of loss cited as 12 September 1884). This vessel struck floating wreckage about 35 miles S of Noss Head.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are arbitrary, being derived from the location cited by Whittaker. It may alternatively fall within the quasi-administrative areas defined as Maritime - Moray or Maritime - Aberdeenshire.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 October 2003.
I G Whittaker 1998.