Archaeology Notes

Event ID 848218

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO88SE 8014 c. 88 84

N56 57 W2 12

NLO: Stonehaven [name: NO 875 858]

Bowdun Head [name: NO 885 845]

Trelung Ness [name: NO 880 816].

Possibly on map sheet NO88NE.

Aberdeen, 19th Mar. The DILIGENCE (sloop), of Grangemouth, was driven on shore yesterday morning about half-a-mile South of Stonehaven, and has become a complete wreck: crew saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,786, London, Tuesday March 20 1855.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9115).

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 18 March 1855). Diligence: this vessel was wrecked 0.5 mile S of Stonehaven.

Registration: Grangemouth. Built 1803. 40 tons burthern.

(Location of loss cited as N56 57.00 W2 10.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Location entered as NO c. 88 84 [N56 57 W2 12]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The vessel most probably stranded in the vicinty of Bowdun Head or a short distance to the S, towards Trelung Ness.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 October 2006.