Note

Date 18 November 2011

Event ID 640568

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Note

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/640568

(Location re-entered as NO c. 725 568 [N56 42.1 W2 27.0]). The location assigned to this record is tentative, assuming that the loss of the vessel occurred E (rather than S) of Montrose Harbour.

Montrose Harbour or the Port of Montrose (NO75NW 44.00) occupies an ill-defined area around NO 7123 5121. It does not have a clearly-defined entrance, but is approached (from the E) between the extensive estuarine sandbanks of the River South Esk, which extend as far E as Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567]. The vessel apparently stranded within the rocky area opposite (to the S of) these sandbanks, where the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map indicates a continuous rocky shore along the S side of the Esk between Ferryden [name: NO 718 568] and Scurdie Ness.

An alternative location of loss may be suggested at NO c. 731 560, this being 0.5 mile SSW of Scurdie Ness, which rocky promontory defines the S side of the entrance into Montrose Harbour approach.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 November 2011.