Louise Charlotte: Brei Wick, North Sea
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Louise Charlotte: Brei Wick, North Sea
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Louisa Charlotte; Braewick; Dales Voe; Tingwall; Louise Charlotte
Canmore ID 241503
Site Number HU44NE 8004
NGR HU 452 469
NGR Description HU c. 452 469
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Shetland Islands
- Parish Maritime - Shetland Islands
- Former Region Shetland Islands Area
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
HU44NE 8004 c. 452 469
N60 12.3 W1 11.1
NLO: Brei Wick [name centred HU 452 469]
Dales Voe [name centred HU 452 455].
Louisa Charlotte: [max. date] 1875
Wood laden derelict. From Riga to South Alloa .Value £290. Master and six men landed at Dundee
Archive Ref: HS; RSB
Source: Shetland Archive Service [undated].
MS/3025, no. 759.
27 September 1875, LOUISE CHARLOTTE, 25 yrs, of Russia, wooden brig, 208 tons, 9 crew, Master H. Mortensen, Owner Fenger & Co., Riga, departed Riga for Alloa, carrying lathwood, stranded, total loss, 2 lives lost, wind NW11, drifted ashore derelict at Hawks Ness, Tingwall, Shetland.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1875 - 76 (1876 [C.1632] LXVII.191).
Lerwick, 22nd Nov., the hull of the LOUISE CHARLOTTE, of Riga, derelict at Braewick, was sold, 16th Nov., for £30: a small quantity of cargo is still on board to stiffen her: the sale of the cargo of lathwood is advertised to take place tomorrow.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,218, London, Friday November 26 1875.
Lerwick, 29th Nov., the sale of the lathwood, ex LOUISE CHARLOTTE, of Riga, derelict, took place at the Customhouse, 23rd , and brought £290.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,223, London, Thursday December 2 [1875].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2644).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of wood: date of loss cited as 23 October 1875). Louise Charlotte: this vessel was stranded at Braewick [Brei Wick:], Dales Voe, Tingwall. Capt Martanson. Sold for 30. (Brig?). Registration: Riga.
(Location of loss cited as N60 12.25 W1 11.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
There is an evident discreancy between the rigs cited by Whittaker and in the contemporary account; the latter is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 March 2004.
NMRS, MS/829/69; I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13324
Name : LOUISE CHARLOTTE
Latitude : 601215
Longitude : 11100
Registration : RIGA
Type : SCHOONER
Loss Day : 23
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1875
Comment : Stranded at Braewick, Dales Voe, Tingwall. Capt. Martanson. Sold for 30 (BRIG?)
Cargo : WOOD