Maritime record MHG46558 - Tarlair: Whaligoe, North Sea

NMRS Report: (13/09/2007 13:25:55)
ND34SW 8003 c. 32 41
N58 21 W3 10

NLO: Whaligoe [name: ND 320 403].

Possibly on map sheet ND33NW.

Formerly entered as Unlocated.

8 May 1889. TARLAIR. 19 years of Peterhead. Wood trading schooner. 85 ton. 5 men. Master A. Wilkinson. Owner J.S. Wood, Peterhead. Peterhead to Castlebay. Fishing stock. Abandoned and drifted to land near Wick, condemned. Calm. Off Whaleegoe [Whaligoe], Caithness.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1656).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of fishing stock: date of loss cited as 8 May 1889). Tarlair: this vessel was wrecked a little to the N of the fish curing station at Whaligoe. Capt. Williamson.
Registration: Peterhead. Built 1870. 91grt. Length: 23m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 21.0 W3 9.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The evidence cited by Whittaker suggests that this vessel was wrecked by stranding. A fish curing station (ND34SW 73) is recorded at ND 3204 4032 and a fishing station (ND34SW 121) at ND 3213 4028. On this basis, a location of loss at ND c. 32 41 may be tentatively suggested.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 December 2003.