Maritime record MHG48466 - Amazon: Sinclair's Bay, North Sea

NMRS Report: (15/05/2007 09:12:45)
ND35NE 8024 c. 37 56
N58 29 W3 5

NLO: Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56]
Wick [name: ND 361 508].

Possibly on map sheet ND35NW or ND35SW.

The AMAZON, Blues, from Virginia to Aberdeen and Newcastle, was driven on shore 6th inst., in Sinclair's Bay, during a gale from the SE, but it was expected would be got off if the weather moderated. The crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6680, London, Tuesday October 11 1831.

Wick, 12th Oct. `119 hhds. of tobacco have been landed from the AMAZON, Blues, from Virginia to Leith. The vessel has sunk five feet in quick sands, and has about seven feet of water in her hold.¿
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6682, London, Tuesday October 18 1831.

Wick, 24th Oct. `The AMAZON, Blues, from Virginia to Leith, was got off 20th inst., and brought here yesterday, and it is hoped without considerable damage. The whole of the cargo is stored here: about half of it supposed to be damaged.¿
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6686, London, Tuesday November 1 1831.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6796).

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 May 2005.