Archaeology Notes

Event ID 678848

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/678848

NO88NE 8051 c. 877 854

N56 57.6 W2 12.2

NLO: Stonehaven [name: NO 878 855]

Stonehaven Bay [name centred NO 880 862].

Location formerly entered as NO c. 879 854 [N56 57.6 W2 11.9].

Aberdeen, 8th Nov. 'The ISABELLA, Smith, from Morrisonshaven [Morrison's Haven] to Arbroath, was totally wrecked yesterday at Stonehaven. Crew saved.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7107, London, Friday November 13 1835.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7111).

(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 7 November 1835). Isabella: this vessel stranded at the South Pier, Stonehaven. Capt. Smith.

Registration: Montrose. Built 1828. 64 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 57.67 W2 11.75).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Location entered as NO c. 877 854 [N56 57.6 W2 12.20]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Stonehaven Harbour (NO88NE 56.00) is centred at NO 87764 85415.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 August 2005.