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Catherine Morrison: Port Beg, Rhinns Of Galloway, North Channel
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Catherine Morrison: Port Beg, Rhinns Of Galloway, North Channel
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Galdenoch Bay; Rhins Of Galloway; Irish Sea; Catherine Morrison
Canmore ID 122496
Site Number NW96SE 8008
NGR NW 959 630
NGR Description NW c. 959 630
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/122496
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NW96SE 8008 c. 959 630
N54 55.2 W5 11.1
NLO: Port Beg [name: NW 959 630].
Formerly entered as NW96SE 8087 at cited location NW 9599 6305 (N54 55.2 W5 11).
See also NW96SE 8030.
(Location of loss cited as 'Port Beg, opposite Galdenoch'. A figurehead and four bodies were recovered: some wooden wreckage is still to be seen).
P C Miller 1992.
1 January 1871, CATHERINE MORRISON, of North Shields, brig, 272 tons, 9 crew, departed Ardrossan for Odessa, carrying coal, foundered, total loss, 9 lives lost, wind S9, Galdenoch Bay, Wigtownshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1871 (1872 [C.605] LIII.583).
Stranraer. A vessel has foundered in Galdenoch bay, 10 miles South of Corsewall light, and it is supposed all hands were lost.
Source, LL, No. 17,695, London, Tuesday, January 3 1871.
Stranraer, 4th Jan. The wreck ashore at Galdenoch is reported to be the barque CATHERINE MORRISON: four bodies have been recovered.
Source, LL, No. 17,697, London, Thursday, January 5 1871.
Shields, 6th Jan. The CATHERINE MORRISON, of North Shields, Bremer, was bound from Ardrossan to Constantinople, with coals.
Source, LL, No. 17,700, London, Monday, January 9 1871.
Campbeltown, 8th Jan. The stern of a longboat, marked "CATHERINE MORRISON, North Shields": also some deck planking, has washed on shore at Corradale.
Source, LL, No. 17,701, London, Tuesday, January 10 1871.
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2413).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 1 January 1871). Catherine Morrison: this vessel foundered [in] Galdenoch Bay, Wigtownshire.
Registration: North Shields. Built 1854. 272grt. Length: 33m. Beam: 8m.
(Location of loss cited as N54 55.50 W5 12.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Galdenoch Bay is not noted as such on the 2000 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The Galdenoch Burn enters the sea at NW 959 635; Galdenoch Moor and the farm of Meikle Galdenoch lie inland.
The location of loss cited by Miller remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 March 2004.
Loss (1 January 1871)
1 January 1871, CATHERINE MORRISON, of North Shields, brig, 272 tons, 9 crew, departed Ardrossan for Odessa, carrying coal, foundered, total loss, 9 lives lost, wind S9, Galdenoch Bay, Wigtownshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1871 (1872 [C.605] LIII.583).
Stranraer. A vessel has foundered in Galdenoch bay, 10 miles South of Corsewall light, and it is supposed all hands were lost.
Source, LL, No. 17,695, London, Tuesday, January 3 1871.
Stranraer, 4th Jan. The wreck ashore at Galdenoch is reported to be the barque CATHERINE MORRISON: four bodies have been recovered.
Source, LL, No. 17,697, London, Thursday, January 5 1871.
Shields, 6th Jan. The CATHERINE MORRISON, of North Shields, Bremer, was bound from Ardrossan to Constantinople, with coals.
Source, LL, No. 17,700, London, Monday, January 9 1871.
Campbeltown, 8th Jan. The stern of a longboat, marked "CATHERINE MORRISON, North Shields": also some deck planking, has washed on shore at Corradale.
Source, LL, No. 17,701, London, Tuesday, January 10 1871.
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2413).
(Location of loss cited as 'Port Beg, opposite Galdenoch'. A figurehead and four bodies were recovered: some wooden wreckage is still to be seen).
P C Miller 1992.
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 1 January 1871). Catherine Morrison: this vessel foundered [in] Galdenoch Bay, Wigtownshire.
Registration: North Shields. Built 1854. 272grt. Length: 33m. Beam: 8m.
(Location of loss cited as N54 55.50 W5 12.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (23 March 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Galdenoch Bay is not noted as such on the 2000 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The Galdenoch Burn enters the sea at NW 959 635; Galdenoch Moor and the farm of Meikle Galdenoch lie inland.
The location of loss cited by Miller remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 March 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5380
Name : CATHERINE MORRISON
Latitude : 545530
Longitude : 51200
Date Built : 1854
Registration : NORTH SHIELDS
Type : BRIG (WOOD)
Tonnage : 272
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 33
Beam : 8
Draught : 5m
Loss Day : 1
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1871
Comment : Foundered Galdenoch Bay, Wigtonshire
Cargo : COAL
