Maritime record MHG49740 - Janet: Brough Head, Nybster, North Sea

NMRS Report: (21/12/2006 11:30:31)
ND36SE 8035 c. 355 617
N58 32.3 W3 6.5

NLO: Brough Head [name: ND 355 617]
Nybster [name: ND 365 634]
Auckengill [name centred ND 367 643]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 36 56].

Staxigoe, 11th Jan. The JANET, (schr.), of and from Port Gordon [Portgordon] to Scrabster, went on shore during a heavy gale from SE yesterday, at Auchingale [Auckengill]: one man drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,866, London, Monday January 15 1849.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8471).

(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast: date of loss cited as 10 January 1849). Janet: this vessel stranded at Brough Head, Nybster. Capt. Campbell.
Registration: Banff. Built 1842. 66 tons burthern. Length: 17m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 33.0 W3 5.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 August 2006.