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MHG46666 - George Smith: Black Rock, Wick Bay, North Sea

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NMRS Report: (08/12/2003)
ND35SE 8064 c. 371 509
N58 26.5 W3 4.7

NLO: North Head [name: ND 384 507]
Wick [name: ND 362 508]
Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506].

19 January 1887. GEORGE SMITH. 1 year of N. Shields. Wood steamship. 14 ton. 7 crew. Master W. Taylor. Owner G. Smith, N. Shields. Fraserburgh to fishing. Ballast. Wind SSE to E9. Wick.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1886-87 (1888 [C.5479] XC.735).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1782).

(Classified as wooden steam trawler, in ballast: date of loss cited as 19 January 1887). This vessel stranded at Blackrock, Wick.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Blackrock is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name Black Rock has been applied to the pillbox (ND35SE 176) at ND 3719 5097.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 December 2003.

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Grid reference	Centred ND 370 509 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND35SE

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