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