Archaeology Notes

Event ID 767358

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO75NW 8001 c. 733 567

N56 42.1 W2 26.3

NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]

Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].

Formerly also entered as NO75NW 8070 at cited location NO c. 734 566 [N56 42 W2 26.1].

Location formerly entered as NO 7340 5680 [N56 42.374 W2 26.0676] and NO c. 735 567 [N56 42.1 W2 26].

Steam trawler - name not stated - 107 ton, of Grimsby, master R. Souter. Bound from Moray Firth to Montrose. Lost 18 Dec 1928, 5.40am. Montrose Ness, close up to Lighthouse. Wind westerly, light. Cause of wreck, breakdown of steering gear. Crew 8, all saved.

[Contemporary] source: Montrose Ness Lighthouse.

(Classified as steel, steam drifter: date of loss cited as 18 December 1928). Chimaera: [this vessel was] wrecked 200 yards ExS of Scurdyness [Scurdie Ness] Lighthouse.

Registration: Grimsby. Built 1907. 107grt. Length: 27m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 42.00 W2 26.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Location of loss entered as NO c. 733 567 [N56 42.1 W2 26.3]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. This vessel apparently stranded on the rocks around the base of Montroseness (Scurdie Ness) Lighthouse (NO75NW 48), which is at NO 73322 56758.

Montrose Ness is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but is to be equated with Scurdie Ness.

The location of loss cited by Whittaker differs from that cited in the primary account; the latter is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 July 2003.