Maritime record MHG48906 - Splendid: Wick Harbour, North Sea

NMRS Report: (12/10/2005)
ND35SE 8105 c. 368 509
N58 26.5 W3 5

NLO: Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506]
Wick [name: ND 362 508].

Wick, 23rd Apl. The SPLENDID, of Pwllheli, Owen, from Newcastle to Drogheda, sprang a leak off Peterhead, last night, ran for Wick Bay, and was stranded behind the North Quay of Pulteney Town Harbour this morning, and is waterlogged: crew saved. There is a heavy sea running, and the vessel is likely to become a total wreck.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,884, London, Monday April 26 1852.

Pulteney Town, Wick, 4th May. The SPLENDID, Owen, from Newcastle to Drogheda, which was stranded here 25th Apl., got off after part of the cargo had been thrown overboard, and was brought in here last night. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8783).

(Classified as schoonber, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 22 April 1852). Splendid: this vessel stranded on Wick Bar. All gone into Wick Harbour, but constructive total loss. Capt. Owen.
Registration: Pwllheli. Built 1839. 111 nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 26.33 W3 5.0).
I G Whittaker (1998).

The classification and cargo cited by Whittaker remain unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 October 2005.