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