Archaeology Notes

Event ID 817443

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO72NE 8012 c. 762 270

N56 26.1 W2 23.2

NLO: Bell Rock [NO 762 270]

Cruden Bay [name: NK 091 364]

Bay of Cruden [name centred NK 090 348]

St Combs [name: NK 055 632].

See also NO72NE 8013.

HMS York: this 74-gun [3rd rate] ship stranded on Bell Rock in January 1804. Wreckage was found at Cruden Bay and St Coombs [both in Buchan, Aberdeenshire]. (64-gun?).

Registration: London. 1433 tons burthern. Length: 53m. Beam: 13m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 26.0 W2 23.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The Bell Rock lighthouse (NO72NE 1) is at NO 76165 26808.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 August 2007.