Archaeology Notes

Event ID 756517

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ27SW 8004 c. 23 71

N57 43 W3 18

NLO: Lossiemouth [name: NJ 235 705].

Possibly on map sheet NJ27SE.

Formerly entered as Unlocated.

Banff, 6th Dec. 'The NEPTUNE, Petrie, from Sunderland, with coals, was wrecked 4th inst., at Jossiemouth [Lossiemouth]. Crew saved.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5863, London, Friday December 12 1823.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6340).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as coal, and date of loss as 4 December 1823). Neptune: this vessel was wrecked at Lossiemouth. Capt. Petrie.

(Location of loss cited as N57 43.50 W3 16.75).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 February 2002.