Maritime record MHG53336 - Unknown: North Sea

ND35SE 8129 unlocated
NLO: Wick [name: ND 361 508]
Sinclair's Bay [name centred ND 37 56].
Wick, 20th Dec. A severe storm at SE. Two fishing boats lost with all hands. Wick breakwater standing well.
Source, LL, No. 17,684, London, Wednesday, December 21 1870
Wick, 20th Dec. [another account]. A severe Easterly storm has set in, preceded by a very heavy surf along the whole coast. Several fishing boats are missing: one is known to have foundered in Sinclair bay [Sinclair’s Bay], and two men and a boy are drowned.
Source, LL, No. 17,684, London, Wednesday, December 21 1870.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11893).
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the port of report.
The loss of these vessels is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 March 2009. <1>