Maid Of Moray: Burghead Harbour, Moray Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Maid Of Moray: Burghead Harbour, Moray Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Burghead Bay; 'burghead Harbour, North Side'; North Sea; Maid Of Moray
Canmore ID 209328
Site Number NJ16NW 8003
NGR NJ 108 693
NGR Description NJ c. 108 693
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Moray
- Parish Maritime - Moray
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ16NW 8003 c. 108 690
N57 42.1 W3 29.8
NLO: Burghead Bay [name: NJ 08 67]
Burghead [name: NJ 110 690].
5 July 1876, MAID OF MORAY, 34 yrs old, of Troon, wooden schooner, 76 tons, 2 crew, Master J. Currie, Owner H. Jamieson, Troon, departed Cromarty for Sunderland, in ballast, wind WSW7, stranded N. side of Burghead Harbour, Morayshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).
Lossiemouth, 5th July, 7.30 p.m., the MAID OF MORAY, in ballast, stranded at Burghead at 3 p.m., today: crew saved by rocket apparatus: vessel expected to get off tomorrow.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,407, London, Thursday July 6 1876.
Lossiemouth, 29th July, the MAID OF MORAY, of Troon, that stranded 5th July, at Burghead, has been sold as a total wreck, and is to be broken up.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,429, London, Tuesday August 1 1876.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2675).
(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast: date of loss cited as 5 July 1876). Maid of Moray: this vessel stranded on the North side of Burghead harbour. Capt. Currie.
Registration: Troon. Built 1842. 82grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 42.33 W3 30.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Burghead Harbour (NJ16NW 58.00) is centred at NJ 10820 69020.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 February 2002.
Loss (5 July 1876)
5 July 1876, MAID OF MORAY, 34 yrs old, of Troon, wooden schooner, 76 tons, 2 crew, Master J. Currie, Owner H. Jamieson, Troon, departed Cromarty for Sunderland, in ballast, wind WSW7, stranded N. side of Burghead Harbour, Morayshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).
Lossiemouth, 5th July, 7.30 p.m., the MAID OF MORAY, in ballast, stranded at Burghead at 3 p.m., today: crew saved by rocket apparatus: vessel expected to get off tomorrow.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,407, London, Thursday July 6 1876.
Lossiemouth, 29th July, the MAID OF MORAY, of Troon, that stranded 5th July, at Burghead, has been sold as a total wreck, and is to be broken up.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,429, London, Tuesday August 1 1876.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2675).
(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast: date of loss cited as 5 July 1876). Maid of Moray: this vessel stranded on the North side of Burghead harbour. Capt. Currie.
Registration: Troon. Built 1842. 82grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 42.33 W3 30.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (19 February 2002)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Burghead Harbour (NJ16NW 58.00) is centred at NJ 10820 69020.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 February 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5514
Name : MAID OF MORAY
Latitude : 574220
Longitude : 33000
Date Built : 1842
Registration : TROON
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 82
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 20
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 5
Loss Month : 7
Loss Year : 1876
Comment : Stranded on the north side of Burghead Harbour. Capt. Currie
Cargo : BALLAST
