Archaeology Notes

Event ID 835522

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NK14NW 8126 c. 137 466

N57 30.6 W1 46.3

NLO: Roanheads [name: NK 137 466]

Peterhead [name: NK 135 465]

Peterhead Bay [name centred NJ 131 454].

15th July 1884, SWEET HOME, 12 yrs old, not registered, wooden lugger, 15 tons, 5 crew. Master and Owner A. Farquharson, Gollochy, Port Gordon [Portgordon]. Departed Peterhead for fishing, in ballast. One life lost. Wind SSW6. Roan Head, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1993).

The loss of this vessel is not noted by I G Whittaker (1998), suggesting that the loss was of life only, the vessel being undamaged.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 January 2004.

I G Whittaker 1998.