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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 766591

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/766591

NJ91NE 8004 c. 974 165

N57 14.4 W2 2.6

NLO: Balmedie Beach [name centred NJ 978 175]

Belhelvie [name: NJ 948 175]

Millden Links [name centred NJ 968 158]

Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].

Formerly entered as Site no. 8296

(Location cited as NJ 974 165). The wreck of the ship 'Fairy' is exposed on the foreshore at Balmedie Beach (and within the area of the country park). The vessel was wrecked on 26 January 1937.

Information from Aberdeenshire Archaeological Service, October 1996.

NMRS, MS/712/12.

(Classified as steel steamship, with cargo of coal (or possibly sugar pulp): date of loss cited as 26 Jnauary 1937). Fairy: this vessel stranded just North of Millden Farm. Capt. Croxford.

Registration: Kings Lynn. Built 1902. 249grt. Length: 37m. Beam: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 14.33 W2 2.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Millden Farm is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 October 2004.

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