Maritime record MHG50223 - Adelaide: Freswick Bay, North Sea

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Location

Grid reference Centred ND 383 674 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet ND36NE
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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NMRS Report: (10/05/2007 15:01:58)
ND36NE 8022 c. 383 675
N58 35.5 W3 3.7

NLO: Freswick Bay [name: ND 383 675].

Conisbay [Canisbay], 15th Nov. The ADELAIDE (sloop), Swanson, of and for Thurso, from Shields, with coals, got ashore in Freswick bay about 8 a.m. to-day, and has become a total wreck: wreck strewed about the beach: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,099, London, Wednesday, November 15 1865.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10873).

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 15 November 1865). Adelaide: this vessel was wrecked in Freswick Bay. Capt. Swanson. Registration: Thurso. 52nrt.
(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), 10 May 2007.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 285607.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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