Archaeology Notes

Event ID 848009

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/848009

NO88NE 8052 c. 877 854

N56 57.6 W2 12.0

NLO: Stonehaven [name: NO 878 855]

Stonehaven Bay [name centred NO 880 862].

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

Aberdeen, 23rd Nov. The Shields vessel wrecked yesterday at the back of the new pier at Stonehaven, is a barque in ballast, from Leith.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,553, London, Saturday November 24 1860.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9945).

Aberdeen, 23rd Nov. [recd., 23rd, per E.T., at 3.20]. A foreign schooner is wrecked at Stonehaven: crew lost.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,552, London, Friday November 23 1860.

Aberdeen, 23rd Nov. [recd., 24th per E.T., at 12.10]. The foreign schooner wrecked near Stonehaven is described as the ELLEN.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,553, London, Saturday November 24 1860.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9946).

(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 loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), possibly suggesting her successful recovery.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 August 2005.