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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 835582
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/835582
NJ96NW 8006 c. 931 678
N57 42 W2 7
NLO: Rosehearty [name: NJ 931 678].
18 October 1884, CRAIGFORTH, 15 yrs old, Leith registered, Lloyd's A1, last surveyed 8/83, iron steamship, Master W. Sutherland, Owner R. Slimen, Leith. Departed Borderi, Iceland for Leith carrying sheep, ponies and one passenger. Wind SSW 4. Stranded at Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).
CRAIGFORTH (s). Fraserburgh, Oct. 18. The steamer CRAIGFORTH, ashore near Rosehearty, is already holed about the forerigging, and, considering the awkward place she lies in, if she is go off it will be both with difficulty and expense.
Source: Maritime Intelligence, Shipping & Mercantile Gazette and LL, No. 14,718, London, Tuesday October 21 1884
CRAIGFORTH (s). Fraserburgh, Oct. 27. During a very heavy gale, lasting from the afternoon of Oct. 25 till this morning, the boisterous seas completely broke up the hull of the CRAIGFORTH (s), of Leith, lying on the strand four miles W from here. The stores and materials previously landed, as well as the wreck as it now lies, are to be sold by auction at an early date.
Source: Maritime Intelligence, Shipping & Mercantile Gazette and LL, No. 14,725, London, Wednesday October 29 1884.
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1850).
(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of sheep and ponies: date of loss cited as 18 October 1884). Craigforth: this vessel stranded East of Rosehearty light[house]. Capt. Sutherland.
Registration: Leith. Bult 1869. 1111grt. Length: 70m. Beam: 9m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 42.00 W2 5.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. 'Rosehearty lighthouse' is presumably to be equated with the beacon (NJ96NW 30.04) that is situated (at NJ 93205 67938) on the outer end of the West pier (NJ96NE 30.01) at Rosehearty Harbour ((NJ96NE 30.00).
This places the loss of this vessel within the ill-defined entrance to Rosehearty Harbour (NJ96NW 30.00), which is centred at NJ 93148 67788.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 April 2011.
