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Provost: Wick Harbour Entrance, North Sea

Sloop (19th Century)

Site Name Provost: Wick Harbour Entrance, North Sea

Classification Sloop (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'Near Wick Pier Head'; Provost

Canmore ID 221957

Site Number ND35SE 8041

NGR ND 368 509

NGR Description ND c. 368 509

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Maritime - Highland
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

ND35SE 8041 c. 368 509

N58 26.5 W3 5

NLO: Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506]

Wick [name: ND 362 508].

18 July 1893, PROVOST, 15 years, not reg. wood sloop. 15 ton. 4 men. Master W. Sinclair. Owner W. Towns, Stromness, Orkney. Wick to Stromness. Ballast. Wind S5. Near Wick Pier Head, Caithness.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1143).

(Classified as wooden sloop, in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 July 1893). Provost: this vessel stranded near Wick Pier Head. Capt. Sinclair.

Not registered. Built 1878. 15 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 26.33 W3 4.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of the entrance to Wick Harbour (ND35SE 66.00), which is centred at ND 36820 50670. The remains of this vessel were presumably removed without delay from this constrained location.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 September 2002.

Activities

Loss (18 July 1893)

18 July 1893, PROVOST, 15 years, not reg. wood sloop. 15 ton. 4 men. Master W. Sinclair. Owner W. Towns, Stromness, Orkney. Wick to Stromness. Ballast. Wind S5. Near Wick Pier Head, Caithness.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1143).

(Classified as wooden sloop, in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 July 1893). Provost: this vessel stranded near Wick Pier Head. Capt. Sinclair.

Not registered. Built 1878. 15 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N58 26.33 W3 4.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (27 September 2002)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of the entrance to Wick Harbour (ND35SE 66.00), which is centred at ND 36820 50670. The remains of this vessel were presumably removed without delay from this constrained location.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 September 2002.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 5923

Name : PROVOST

Latitude : 582620

Longitude : 30430

Date Built : 1878

Registration : Not Registered

Type : SLOOP (WOOD)

Tonnage : 15

Loss Day : 18

Loss Month : 7

Loss Year : 1893

Comment : Stranded near Wick pier Head. Capt. Sinclair

Cargo : BALLAST

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