Sweet Home: Roan Head, Peterhead, North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Sweet Home: Roan Head, Peterhead, North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Roanheads
Canmore ID 253853
Site Number NK14NW 8126
NGR NK 137 466
NGR Description NK c. 137 466
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
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.