Archaeology Notes

Event ID 780130

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ76SE 8001 c. 798 649

N57 40.4 W2 20.3

NLO: Gardenstown [name: NJ 800 648]

Gamrie Bay [name centred NJ 798 654].

Possibly on map sheet NJ76NE.

22 March 1870, FLOWERS, 6 yrs old, lugger, 15 tons, 9 crew, departed Gardenstown, for fishing, in ballast, stranded, total loss, 1 life lost, wind N9, entrance to Gardenstown Harbour, Banff.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2398).

(Classified as lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 March 1870). Flowers: this vessel stranded at the entrance to Gardenstown harbour.

Built 1864. 15nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N57 40.50 W2 20.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of map sheet NJ76NE.

Gardenstown Harbour (NJ76SE 17) is centred at NJ 79930 64830.

The remains of the vessel were presumably removed wothout delay from this constrained location.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 January 2002.