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Memorial unveiled to lost mariners in Wick

It's Wick's first major monument for a hundred years

By Iain Ramage

22nd May 2023

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A memorial to lost mariners has been unveiled in Wick.

The striking sculpture honours hundreds of people lost off the north of Scotland coast over the centuries.

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