Archaeology Notes

Event ID 878779

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO88NE 8055 c. 880 855

N56 57.5 W2 11.8

NLO: Bellman's Head [name: NO 880 855]

Stonehaven [name: NO 878 855]

Stonehaven Bay [name centred NO 880 862].

Aberdeen, 19th Feb. 'The TYNE, White, in entering Stonehaven yesterday, missed stays, & struck on the Bellmaur [Bellman's] Head and is expected to go to pieces; crew saved.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9657, London, Monday February 24 1845.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7940).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 18 February 1845). Tyne: this vessel stranded at Bellman [Bellman's] Head, near Stonehaven. Expected all gone. Capt. White.

(Location of loss cited as N56 57.75 W2 11.75).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Location entered as NO c. 880 855 [N56 57.6 W2 11.9]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The name Bellman's Head applies to a rocky reef to the NE of the entrance to Stonehaven Harbour (NO88NE 56.00: centred NO 87764 85415).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 October 2005.