Alabama: West Cluny Harbour, Buckie, Spey Bay, Moray Firth
Ketch (19th Century)
Site Name Alabama: West Cluny Harbour, Buckie, Spey Bay, Moray Firth
Classification Ketch (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) West Clunny Harbour; Buckie Harbour; North Sea; Alabama
Canmore ID 253896
Site Number NJ46NW 8017
NGR NJ 42 66
NGR Description NJ c. 42 66
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Moray
- Parish Maritime - Moray
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ46NW 8017 c. 42 65
N57 40 W2 58
NLO: Buckie [name: NJ 415 654].
Formerly also entered in error as NK06NW 8021.
26th October 1884, ALABAMA, age unknown, registered N. Shields, wooden ketch, 29 tons, 3 crew. Master and Owner G. Geddes, Nether Buckie, Banff. Was drawn up on the beach for repairs. Wind WNW 10. West Clunny [Cluny] Harbour, Buckie, Banffshire.
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. 2003).
(Classified as wooden ketch: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 26 October 1884). Alabama: [this vessel was] wrecked on shore [at] West Cluny Harbour.
Registration: Banff. 29grt. Length: 14m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 40.50 W2 59.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
(Location entered as NJ c. 42 65 [N57 40 W2 58]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Cluny is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,00 map, but the lifeboat shed of that name (NJ46NW 38) is at NJ 42812 65972. Cluny Harbour, Buckie (NJ46NW 15.00) is centred at NJ 42883 66017.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 January 2004.
Loss (26 October 1884)
26th October 1884, ALABAMA, age unknown, registered N. Shields, wooden ketch, 29 tons, 3 crew. Master and Owner G. Geddes, Nether Buckie, Banff. Was drawn up on the beach for repairs. Wind WNW 10. West Clunny [Cluny] Harbour, Buckie, Banffshire.
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. 2003).
(Classified as wooden ketch: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 26 October 1884). Alabama: [this vessel was] wrecked on shore [at] West Cluny Harbour.
Registration: Banff. 29grt. Length: 14m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 40.50 W2 59.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (28 January 2004)
NLO: Buckie [name: NJ 415 654].
Formerly also entered in error as NK06NW 8021.
Note (28 January 2004)
(Location entered as NJ c. 42 65 [N57 40 W2 58]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Cluny is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,00 map, but the lifeboat shed of that name (NJ46NW 38) is at NJ 42812 65972. Cluny Harbour, Buckie (NJ46NW 15.00) is centred at NJ 42883 66017.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 January 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 2284
Name : ALABAMA
Latitude : 574030
Longitude : 25900
Registration : BANFF
Type : KETCH (WOOD)
Tonnage : 29
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 14
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 26
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1884
Comment : Wrecked on shore West Cluny Harbour.
