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Black Diamond: Kirkdale Burn, Wigtown Bay, Solway Firth

Craft (19th Century)

Site Name Black Diamond: Kirkdale Burn, Wigtown Bay, Solway Firth

Classification Craft (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Kirkcudbright; Black Diamond

Canmore ID 205625

Site Number NX55SW 8002

NGR NX 517 526

NGR Description NX c. 517 526

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NX55SW 8002 c. 517 526

N54 50.8 W4 18.6

NLO: Wigtown Bay [name centred NX 52 48]

Kirkcudbright [name: NX 683 505].

17 September 1880, BLACK DIAMOND, 50 yrs old, of Carlisle, wooden flat, 45 tons, 2 crew, Master and Owner D. Messenger, Maryport, departed Maryport for Gatehouse-of-Fleet, Co. Kirkcudbright, carrying coal, wind SW7, stranded, total loss, Kirkdale Burn, Co. Kirkcudbright.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).

Dumfries, Sept. 25, BLACK DIAMOND, flat, 45 tons, Messenger, from Maryport for Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbright (coal), lost mainsail Sept. 17 in Wigtown Bay, and drifted ashore the same evening near Kirkdale Burn on very rocky bottom. She shortly afterwards broke up and became a total wreck: crew [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3042).

(Classified as wooden flat, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 17 September 1880). Black Diamond: this vessel stranded [at the] Kirkdale Burn, Kirkcudbright. Capt. Messenger.

Registration: Carlisle. Built 1829. 45grt. Length: 12m. Beam: 3m.

(Location of loss cited as N54 50.75 W4 19.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The Kirkdale Burn enters the NE side of Wigtown Bay at NX 517 526.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 May 2004.

Activities

Loss (17 September 1880)

17 September 1880, BLACK DIAMOND, 50 yrs old, of Carlisle, wooden flat, 45 tons, 2 crew, Master and Owner D. Messenger, Maryport, departed Maryport for Gatehouse-of-Fleet, Co. Kirkcudbright, carrying coal, wind SW7, stranded, total loss, Kirkdale Burn, Co. Kirkcudbright.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).

Dumfries, Sept. 25, BLACK DIAMOND, flat, 45 tons, Messenger, from Maryport for Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbright (coal), lost mainsail Sept. 17 in Wigtown Bay, and drifted ashore the same evening near Kirkdale Burn on very rocky bottom. She shortly afterwards broke up and became a total wreck: crew [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3042).

(Classified as wooden flat, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 17 September 1880). Black Diamond: this vessel stranded [at the] Kirkdale Burn, Kirkcudbright. Capt. Messenger.

Registration: Carlisle. Built 1829. 45grt. Length: 12m. Beam: 3m.

(Location of loss cited as N54 50.75 W4 19.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (3 May 2004)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The Kirkdale Burn enters the NE side of Wigtown Bay at NX 517 526.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 May 2004.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 5854

Name : BLACK DIAMOND

Latitude : 545045

Longitude : 41900

Date Built : 1829

Registration : CARLISLE

Type : FLAT (WOOD)

Tonnage : 45

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 12

Beam : 3

Loss Day : 17

Loss Month : 9

Loss Year : 1880

Comment : Stranded Kirkdale Burn, Kirkcudbright. Capt. Messenger

Cargo : COAL

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