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Sam Slick: Isle Of Whithorn Bay, Wigtown Bay, Solway Firth

Brig (19th Century)

Site Name Sam Slick: Isle Of Whithorn Bay, Wigtown Bay, Solway Firth

Classification Brig (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Isle Of Whithorn; Whithorn Harbour Entrance; Sam Slick

Canmore ID 124749

Site Number NX43NE 8016

NGR NX 478 360

NGR Description NX c. 478 360

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NX43NE 8016 c. 478 360

N54 41.8 W4 21.7

NLO: Isle of Whithorn [name: NX 479 365]

Wigtown Bay [name centred NX 52 48].

CROSS REF: EIDENGER (NX43NE 8005) and VANDERBYL (NX43NE 8021).

Location formerly entered as NX 4770 3630 (N54 41.9 W4 21.8).

See also NX43NE 8005 and NX43NE 8021.

For Isle of Whithorn, harbour (NX 47787 36242), see NX43NE 27.00.

11 January 1880, SAM SLICK, 20 yrs old, of Belfast, wooden brigantine, 118 tons, 5 crew and a pilot, Master J. Ferguson, Owner H. Craig, Belfast, departed Isle of Whithorn for Belfast, carrying wreckage, turnips and rock salt, wind S6, stranded, total loss, entrance to Isle of Whithorn Bay, Wigtownshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).

Isle of Whithorn, Jan. 12, 9.31 a.m., SAM SLICK schooner of and for Belfast from here, with wrecked schooner EIDANGER's materials and turnips, got ashore last night on rock near this harbour, and will become a total loss.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,503, London, Tuesday January 13 [1880].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2985).

(Classified as wooden brigantine, with cargo of wreckage, turnips and salt: date of loss cited as 11 January 1880). Sam Slick: this vessel stranded at the entrance to Isle of Whithorn, close by Vanderbyl [NX43NE 8021]. Capt. Ferguson.

Registration: Belfast. Built 1860. 118 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N54 41.75 W4 21.67).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The loss of this vessel evidently occurred within the lengthy entrance to the harbour at Isle of Whithorn (at NX 47787 36242), for which see NX43NE 27.00.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 May 2004.

Activities

Loss (11 January 1880)

11 January 1880, SAM SLICK, 20 yrs old, of Belfast, wooden brigantine, 118 tons, 5 crew and a pilot, Master J. Ferguson, Owner H. Craig, Belfast, departed Isle of Whithorn for Belfast, carrying wreckage, turnips and rock salt, wind S6, stranded, total loss, entrance to Isle of Whithorn Bay, Wigtownshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).

Isle of Whithorn, Jan. 12, 9.31 a.m., SAM SLICK schooner of and for Belfast from here, with wrecked schooner EIDANGER's materials and turnips, got ashore last night on rock near this harbour, and will become a total loss.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,503, London, Tuesday January 13 [1880].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2985).

(Classified as wooden brigantine, with cargo of wreckage, turnips and salt: date of loss cited as 11 January 1880). Sam Slick: this vessel stranded at the entrance to Isle of Whithorn, close by Vanderbyl [NX43NE 8021]. Capt. Ferguson.

Registration: Belfast. Built 1860. 118 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N54 41.75 W4 21.67).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (4 May 2004)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The loss of this vessel evidently occurred within the lengthy entrance to the harbour at Isle of Whithorn (at NX 47787 36242), for which see NX43NE 27.00.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 May 2004.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 5832

Name : SAM SLICK

Latitude : 544145

Longitude : 42140

Date Built : 1860

Registration : BELFAST

Type : BRIGANTINE (WOOD)

Tonnage : 118

Loss Day : 11

Loss Month : 1

Loss Year : 1880

Comment : Stranded at the entrance to Isle of Whithorn, close by VANDERBYL. Capt. Ferguson

Cargo : WRECKAGE,TURNIPS&SALT

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