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Valkyrien: Fisherton, Firth Of Clyde
Barque (19th Century)
Site Name Valkyrien: Fisherton, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Barque (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Eight Hundred Yards North Of Dunure Harbour; Outer Clyde Estuary; Valkyrien
Canmore ID 113269
Site Number NS21NE 8001
NGR NS 257 167
NGR Description NS c. 257 167
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/113269
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - South Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS21NE 8001 c. 257 167
N55 24.8 W4 45.3
NLO: Dunure [name: NS 254 160].
See also NS21NE 8003.
Location formerly entered as NS 2545 1645, NS c. 254 160 [N55 24.4 W4 45.5] and NS c. 25 16 [N55 24 W4 46].
12 December 1883, VALKYRIEN, 33 yrs old, of Denmark, wooden barque, 381 tons, 10 crew, Master P. M. Moller, Owner H. N. Jeppesen, Dragor, departed Newport, Va., for Glasgow, carrying logs of walnut wood, 1 life lost, wind NNW10, stranded, total loss, quarter mile N. of Dunure, Ayrshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).
VALKYRIEN. Ayr, Dec. 12. The barque VALKYRIEN, of Dragor, Moller, from Richmond (Va.), for Glasgow, struck on the rocks at Dunure last evening, and at daylight was found to have broken up, and the cargo (walnut logs and staves) strewn along the coast: one boy drowned.
Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,724, London, Saturday, December 15 1883.
VALKYRIEN. Ayr, Dec. 15, 9 20 a.m. The VALKYRIEN has broken up. Sixty men saving cargo and wreckage. About 400 logs salved, and salvage proceeding. Left wreck last night.
Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,725, London, Monday, December 17 1883.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3449).
(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 12 December 1883). Valkyrien: this vessel stranded 800 yards N of Dunure Harbour. Capt. Moller.
Registration: Danish. Built 1850. 381nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 25.00 W4 45.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Dunure harbour (NS21NE 24) is centred at NS 25479 16030.
Fisherton village (NS21NE 51) lies inland, around NS 2641 1668.
Informaton from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 June 2005.
Loss (12 December 1883)
12 December 1883, VALKYRIEN, 33 yrs old, of Denmark, wooden barque, 381 tons, 10 crew, Master P. M. Moller, Owner H. N. Jeppesen, Dragor, departed Newport, Va., for Glasgow, carrying logs of walnut wood, 1 life lost, wind NNW10, stranded, total loss, quarter mile N. of Dunure, Ayrshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).
VALKYRIEN. Ayr, Dec. 12. The barque VALKYRIEN, of Dragor, Moller, from Richmond (Va.), for Glasgow, struck on the rocks at Dunure last evening, and at daylight was found to have broken up, and the cargo (walnut logs and staves) strewn along the coast: one boy drowned.
Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,724, London, Saturday, December 15 1883.
VALKYRIEN. Ayr, Dec. 15, 9 20 a.m. The VALKYRIEN has broken up. Sixty men saving cargo and wreckage. About 400 logs salved, and salvage proceeding. Left wreck last night.
Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,725, London, Monday, December 17 1883.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3449).
(Classified as wooden barque, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 12 December 1883). Valkyrien: this vessel stranded 800 yards N of Dunure Harbour. Capt. Moller.
Registration: Danish. Built 1850. 381nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 25.00 W4 45.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (14 June 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Dunure harbour (NS21NE 24) is centred at NS 25479 16030.
Fisherton village (NS21NE 51) lies inland, around NS 2641 1668.
Informaton from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 June 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 720
Name : VALKYRIEN
Latitude : 552500
Longitude : 44500
Date Built : 1850
Registration : DANISH
Type : BARQUE (WOOD)
Tonnage : 381
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 12
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1883
Comment : Stranded 800 yds N of Dunure Hbr. Capt. Moller
Cargo : TIMBER
