Sisters: Peterhead, South Harbour, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Sisters: Peterhead, South Harbour, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Peterhead Bay; Peterhead, South Harbour, West Pier; Peterhead Harbour; Sisters
Canmore ID 207055
Site Number NK14NW 8072
NGR NK 1366 4583
NGR Description NK c. 1366 4583
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK14NW 8072 c. 1366 4583
N57 30.2 W1 46.3
NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465]
Peterhead Bay [name centred NJ 131 454].
Location formerly cited as NK c. 13 45 [N57 30 W1 47], and also as NK c. 137 459 [N57 30.2 W1 46.3].
15 March 1893. SISTERS. 36 years of Inverness. Wood schooner. 83 ton. 5 men. Master S. Woodford. Owner J. Hall, Invergordon. Sunderland to Invergordon. Lime. Wind WNW9. West Pier, entrance to Peterhead South Harbour.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1892-93 (1894 [C.7324] LXXVI.505).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1302).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of lime: date of loss cited as 15 March 1893). Sisters: this vessel stranded at [the] West Pier, Peterhead South Harbour, and was destroyed by fire.[Capt.] Woodford.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1857. 83grt. Length: 22m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 30.0 W1 46.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
(Location re-entered as NK c. 1366 4583). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The West Pier is probably to be equated with that defining the W side of the entrance to the S Harbour. The Harbour Office (NK14NW 128.15) and the Lighthouse or Beacon on the pier (NK14NW 128.16) are at NK 13633 45844 and NK 13632 45826 respectively. The current edition of the OS (GIS) AIB notes the South Harbour at [Name Centred] NK 1370 4594.
The location cited by Whittaker for this loss remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 December 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4420
Name : SISTERS
Latitude : 573000
Longitude : 14630
Date Built : 1857
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 83
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 22
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 15
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1893
Comment : Stranded at West Pier, Peterhead South Hbr and destroyed by fire. Woodford
Cargo : LIME