MHG46398 - Anna: Golspie Links, North Sea

Summary

No summary available.

Type and Period (2)

  • WRECK (Crashed, 19th Century - 1876 AD to 1876 AD)
  • SCHOONER (Unknown date)

Protected Status

  • None recorded

Full Description

NMRS Report: (07/10/2004)
NH89NW 8002 c. 82 97
N57 57 W3 60

NLO: Littleferry [name: NH 805 956]
Golspie [name: NH 832 999]
Golspie Links [name centred NH 820 979].

See also ND36NE 8016.

This vessel, possibly a schooner, was driven ashore 'between Golspie and Little Ferry' during the great storm of 22-3 December 1876. There were no survivors.
D M Ferguson 1990.

Wick, 23rd Dec., a nameboard, marked "SPICA GRE" has been picked up at Freswick, and one marked "ANNA" at Golspie.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,556, London, Thursday December 28 1876.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4548).

(Classified as possibly a schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 22 December 1876). This vessel was wrecked between Golspie and Little Ferry [Littleferry].
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
This vessel evidently stranded, most probably within the area of Golspie Links.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 June 2003.

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Location

Grid reference NH 82 96 (point)
Map sheet NH89NW

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