The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-05 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK•

(Prom the Greenock Advertiser.)
A smack, the Marchioness of Huntly, of and for 'Wick,
from Leith, with nearly twenty passengers, male and le-
male, with a valuable cargo of goods, after being on the
previous morning within a mile of her destined port, ait
taken by .the gale, driven off the Caithness coast, and
stranded at three o'clock on Saturday morning, on the
Links of Boyndie, a little southward of the Knockhead,
and small harbour of Bletkpots ; and having been pro lie
dentially put into a narrow creek among the rocks;
th
only possible place, in an extent of nearly two milee, where
there was a chance of saving the vessel or proptitiiall the
crew and passengers (one of them, a delicate young we'
istigue) Wert got
man, has since died from fright and
landed by great exertion, and hospitably receiyed in and
about the village of Whitehills, and at the house of Mr.
Milne, Mill of Boyndie, who, with his serVants, horses,
and carts, attended at the wreck the whole of the' day;
and the cargo was, with the aid of the officers and men of
th Preventive Coast guard from Banff, got on shoreu, and
safely housed in Mr. Milne's granary at Whitebills, nder
proper care. The vessel, if the gale moderate early, maY
be repaired and got off the beach. The cargo of the
Afarehioness
,of Huntly was a very valuable one, consist.
ing of teas, fruit, wine, oil; spirits', iron, and bale gods,
much of which is entirely destroyed. In regard to this
vessel, it is most singular, that the creek she came inn
is
is
not above sixty feet wide, and is the safest spot upothe
whole range- of that coast ; and so unconscious were die
people of their situation, that when safely landed, they
asked if they were near Inverness.
.About a quarter of a mile farther west, and immediately
oosite to the, villag Of Whitehills, a large vessel name
-unknown,p e was seers at dawn of day on Sunday morning to
come in among the breakers, where the coast is ettremely
rugged, with broken masses of large, rocks extending s
siderable way out from the land, and immediately became
an entire wreck, not a soul on board saved, and the piece'
of the vessel broken into enull portions, coining on abort
among •the rocks along the. coast. From the Rose aud,
Thistle being carved on :some of the ornamental parts of
'The Rival, of Anstruther, Captain Le
the vessel that have been picked up, it is conjectured to
have been a British brig.
Belfast, with 1860 barrels of linseed,' was wrecked on Sa-
turday morning, near Permit: the crew were with great
difficulty saved t also part of the cargos and materials.
The Atdnaskiach, Paterson, fro ece with uvaltiah.e
curt was put on shore on Saturday mornt at s;:e
o'clock, on a sandy beach' five miles east of airn; t
slie; from Riga to
ship and cargo to all appearance have sustained little
and it is expected, on landing part of the cargo, sbe id
be got, off and proceed on her voyage. We underitan
the owner dispatched, on Monday, an experienced carpentir
to assist in getting the vessel off. ashore The hull of a vessel, name unknown, is cast
about two miles to the west of Banff.
The stern. of a vessel his 'been cast ashore at Cull'n'
said to hive Jean of Leith painted on It. -
Ittletea
beach.
onln thefact
,cno:is.t near
couldFo e hhaable,
Another wreck is reported to have comet ashore at Borg;
vessel
goods, directed for Wick and Thurso, are strewed 1t){1,1
ray Firth during this awful storm. ,
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