Archaeology Notes

Event ID 877018

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/877018

NO75NW 8078 c. 733 567

N56 42.1 W2 26.2

NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]

Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].

20 March 1889. ANNA MARIA. 17 years of Great Yarmouth. Wood ketch. 36 ton. 3 men. Master and owner A. Baird, Peterhead. Bridgeness to Peterhead. Coal. Wind ENE8. Sairdy [Scurdie] Ness Point, Forfar.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1635).

(Classified as wooden ketch, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 20 March 1889). Anna Maria: [this vessel] stranded on Scurdyness Point [Scurdie Ness]. Capt. Baird.

Registration: Great Yarmouth. Built 1872. 36 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N56 42.00 W2 26.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Location entered as NO c. 733 567 [N56 42.1 W2 26.2]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

The prominent rocky headland of Scurdie Ness is also known as Montrose Ness or Montroseness. It is situated on the S side of the entrance to the lengthy approach (from the E) to Montrose Harbour or the Port of Montrose (NO75NW 44.00).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 November 2003.