Maritime record MHG47105 - Recruit: North Sea

NMRS Report: (24/05/2007 15:24:20)
NE19SW 8002 unlocated

NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465]
Fair Isle [name centred HZ 21 72]
Lerwick [name: HU 475 415].

November 1865, RECRUIT, 8 yrs old, schooner, 53 tons, 5 crew, departed Lossiemouth for Lerwick, carrying staves and ballast, and master's wife, foundered (supposed), total loss, 6 lives lost, between Peterhead and Lerwick.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1865 (1866 [3716] LXV.507).

Lerwick, 22nd Dec. A ship's boat was driven on shore at Mangaster Voe, N. Mavine, last week, and went to pieces: stern-board found 'RECRUIT, of Peterhead, James Halcrow, master'.
Source: LL, No. 16,138, London, Monday, January 1 1866.

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2229).

Dundee, 30th Mar. The RECRUIT, Halcrow, of and for Scalloway, from Lossiemouth, sailed in Nov., last, and was lost between Lerwick and Fair Isle, and her crew were picked up by a vessel bound to St. John, N.B., whither they were carried. [See Lerwick paragraph in List of 1st Jan.].
Source: LL, No. 16,215, London, Monday, April 2 1866.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11034).

(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 19 December 1865). Recruit: ship's boat found at Mangaster Voe, North Mavine [Northmavine]. Capt. Sherman.
Registration: Peterhead. Built 1857. 53grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N60 25.0 W1 25.0).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 1865). Recruit: this vessel is presumed vto have foundered between Lerwick and Fair Isle (November/). Capt. Halcrow. Registration: Scalloway.
(Location of loss cited as N59 40.0 W1 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. The date cited by Whittaker is presumably that of the discovery of the boat. Mangaster Voe [name centred HU 328 703] opens into the Atlantic, rather than the North Sea; the discovery of the boat in Northmavine may suggest that the loss occurred to the W of the islands.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 March 2004.