Archaeology Notes

Event ID 760384

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ90NE 8006 9559 0737

N57 9.4417 W2 4.3667

NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Surveying Details

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Only the JAMES HALL's boiler remains.

Report by Harbourmaster, Aberdeen.

22 February 1977. The wreck was sighted but not investigated. Only the boiler remains, which still dries.

Report by HMS ENTERPRISE, July 1976.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as iron steamship, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 23 February 1904). James Hall: this vessel was in collision and sank 0.5 mile North of [Aberdeen Harbour] North Pier. Capt. McDonald. (Later beached?).

Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1870. 366grt. Length: 55m. Beam: 8m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 9.43 W2 4.37).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Aberdeen Links are presumably to be equated with the Old Town or King's Links [name centred NJ 950 081] that are situated to the N of Aberdeen Harbour entrance and to the S of the mouth of the River Don [NJ 955 095]. Aberdeen Beach is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.

The North pier at Aberdeen harbour (NJ90NE 7.02) extends from NJ 9590 0570 to NJ 9639 0609.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 June 2007.