Archaeology Notes

Event ID 840422

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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N57 40 W2 30

NLO: Macduff [name: NJ 704 649]

Banff Bay [name: NJ 695 643].

Possibly on map sheets or NJ76NW.

Not to be confused with NJ46NW 8019.

Banff, 27th Oct. The TOWN OF LIVERPOOL (brig), of Macduff, was totally wrecked whilst making for that harbour, 25th Oct.: crew saved.

Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 16,085, London, Monday, October 30 1865.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10867).

(Classified as brig: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 25 October 1875). Town of Liverpool: this vessel was wrecked at Macduff.

(Location of loss cited as N57 40.00 W2 29.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Location entered as NJ c. 70 64 [N57 40 W2 30]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 April 2004.