Maritime record MHG48397 - Ruby: Freswick, North Sea

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Location

Grid reference Centred ND 36 67 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet ND36NE
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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Full Description

NMRS Report: (11/05/2007 08:45:01)
ND36NE 8017 c. 37 67
N58 35 W3 5

NLO: Freswick [name: ND 370 675]
Freswick House [ND 377 670]
Freswick Bay [name: ND 383 675]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 36 56].

Freswick, 24th Feb. `The RUBY, Wood, of and from Aberdeen, for the Westward, with fishing gear, came on shore here this morning, and is expected to become a wreck; master and mate drowned.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9352, London, Friday March 1 1844
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7835).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of fishing gear: date of loss cited as 24 February 1844). Ruby: this vessel stranded at Freswick. Capt. Wood.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1810. 75 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 35.33 W3 4.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2007.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 272001.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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