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MHG47897 - Andrew Longmore: Proudfoot Rocks, Wick Bay, North Sea

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NMRS Report: (15/05/2007 11:06:01)
ND35SE 8092 c. 383 507
N58 26.4 W3 3.4

NLO: Proudfoot [name: ND 382 508]
Wick [name: ND 362 508]
Wick Bay [name centred ND 376 506].

Not to be confused with ND37NW 8018.

Wick, Dec. 30, 11 a.m., ANDREW LONGMORE schooner, Moore master, from Riisoer (billets), is on shore at Proudford [Proudfoot], Wick Bay: likely total wreck: crew saved by rocket apparatus.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,116, London, Saturday December 31 1881.

ANDREW LONGMORE, salvors are busy landing stores and materials, by dragging through the surf. No boat can lie alongside, and cargo cannot be got at until better weather. Vessel much strained and breaking up. (Wick, Dec. 31).
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,118, London, Tuesday January 3 1882.

ANDREW LONGMORE schooner, after having jettisoned part cargo warped off this tide and is being warped into Wick Bay. (Wick, Jan. 3, 12.40 p.m.).
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,119, London, Wednesday January 4 [1882].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5313).

This vessel presumably stranded on the Proudfoot Rock or Rocks. These are not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to the extensive and prominent rocks around North Head (centred ND 383 507), Wick Bay.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998). presumably on account of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 February 2005.

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Grid reference	Centred ND 383 507 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND35SE

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