Archaeology Notes
Event ID 767139
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/767139
NW96SE 8008 c. 959 630
N54 55.2 W5 11.1
NLO: Port Beg [name: NW 959 630].
Formerly entered as NW96SE 8087 at cited location NW 9599 6305 (N54 55.2 W5 11).
See also NW96SE 8030.
(Location of loss cited as 'Port Beg, opposite Galdenoch'. A figurehead and four bodies were recovered: some wooden wreckage is still to be seen).
P C Miller 1992.
1 January 1871, CATHERINE MORRISON, of North Shields, brig, 272 tons, 9 crew, departed Ardrossan for Odessa, carrying coal, foundered, total loss, 9 lives lost, wind S9, Galdenoch Bay, Wigtownshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1871 (1872 [C.605] LIII.583).
Stranraer. A vessel has foundered in Galdenoch bay, 10 miles South of Corsewall light, and it is supposed all hands were lost.
Source, LL, No. 17,695, London, Tuesday, January 3 1871.
Stranraer, 4th Jan. The wreck ashore at Galdenoch is reported to be the barque CATHERINE MORRISON: four bodies have been recovered.
Source, LL, No. 17,697, London, Thursday, January 5 1871.
Shields, 6th Jan. The CATHERINE MORRISON, of North Shields, Bremer, was bound from Ardrossan to Constantinople, with coals.
Source, LL, No. 17,700, London, Monday, January 9 1871.
Campbeltown, 8th Jan. The stern of a longboat, marked "CATHERINE MORRISON, North Shields": also some deck planking, has washed on shore at Corradale.
Source, LL, No. 17,701, London, Tuesday, January 10 1871.
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2413).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 1 January 1871). Catherine Morrison: this vessel foundered [in] Galdenoch Bay, Wigtownshire.
Registration: North Shields. Built 1854. 272grt. Length: 33m. Beam: 8m.
(Location of loss cited as N54 55.50 W5 12.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Galdenoch Bay is not noted as such on the 2000 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The Galdenoch Burn enters the sea at NW 959 635; Galdenoch Moor and the farm of Meikle Galdenoch lie inland.
The location of loss cited by Miller remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 March 2004.