Archaeology Notes

Event ID 845135

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO88NE 8057 c. 877 854

N56 57.6 W2 12.2

NLO: Stonehaven [name: NO 878 855]

Stonehaven Bay [name centred NO 880 862].

Location formerly entered as NO c. 879 854 [N56 57.6 W2 11.9].

Aberdeen, 7th April. The OLIVE, Toogoose, of Goole, from Hull to Stonehaven, in being assisted into that port 4th inst., in a leaky state, struck against the South Pier, and is expected to become a wreck: the cargo will be saved: two of the men rendering assistance were drowned.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,937, London, Monday April 9 1849.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8497).

(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 4 April 1849). Olive: this vessel was wrecked near [the] South Pier, Stonehaven. Capt. Targoose.

Registration: Goole. Built 1848.

(Location of loss cited as N56 57.67 W2 11.75).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Location entered as NO c. 877 854 [N56 57.6 W2 12.20]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Stonehaven Harbour (NO88NE 56.00) is centred at NO 87764 85415.

The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 September 2006.