Archaeology Notes

Event ID 848471

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ56NE 8004 c. 590 665

N57 41.2 W2 41.4

NLO: Craig Duff [name: NJ 590 665]

Portsoy [name: NJ 590 665].

Location formerly entered as NJ c. 590 664 [N57 41.1 W2 41.3].

30 November 1877, MARIA, 20 yrs old, of Germany, wooden galliot, 68 tons, 4 crew, Master G. G. Buss, Owner A. T. Schapp, Grossefehn, Hanover, departed St Petersburg for Portsoy, carrying bones, wind SSE3, stranded, Craigduff [Craig Duff], mouth of Portsoy Harbour, Banffshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).

Portsoy, 30th Nov., 7.33 p.m., the schooner MARIA, of 'Grosven', got ashore at Portsoy, at 6.30 p.m.: crew, 4 men, saved by apparatus.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,845, London, Saturday December 1 1877.

Portsoy, 1st Dec., the MARIA (galliot), of Grossefehn, Buss, from St. Petersburg to this port, with bones, was totally wrecked in entering the harbour here 28th Nov.: nothing lost.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,847, London, Tuesday December 4 [1877].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2841).

(Classified as wooden galliot, with cargo of bones: date of loss cited as 30 November 1877). Maria: this vessel stranded at Craigduff [Craig Duff], at the mouth of Portsoy harbour. Capt. Bass.

Registration: German. Built 1857. 64 tons register.

(Location of loss cited as N57 41.25 W2 41.25).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is is essentially tentative. Craigduff is not noted as such on the 1994 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to Craig Duff, which the current edition of the OS (GIS) MasterMap depicts as a rocky promontory to the NE of the inlet that contains both the Old harbour (NJ56NE 13.00 centred 58894 66347) and the New Harbour (NJ56NE 39.00: NJ 5905 6645) at Portsoy.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 April 2011.