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Archibald: Big Scare, Luce Bay, Solway Firth
Barque (19th Century)
Site Name Archibald: Big Scare, Luce Bay, Solway Firth
Classification Barque (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Scare Rocks; Little Scares Rock; 'on The Big Scaurs Rocks, At The Entrance Of The Bay Of Luce'; Archibald
Canmore ID 124068
Site Number NX23SE 8004
NGR NX 258 332
NGR Description NX c. 258 332
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/124068
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NX23SE 8004 c. 263 344
N54 40.5 W4 41.7
NLO: Big Scare [name: NX 258 332]
Scares [name: NX 266 337]
Little Scares [name: NX 263 344]
Luce Bay [name centred NX 20 45].
Location formerly entered as NX 2630 3450 (N54 40.5 W4 41.6), and also as NX c. 263 344 [N54 40.5 W4 41.7].
Stranraer, 30th Jan. The barque ARCHIBALD, of Memel, was wrecked on the Big Scaurs [Big Scare] rocks, at the entrance of the Bay of Luce, 27th inst.: chief mate and two seamen saved: the master and seven men took to the long boat, but no account of their safety has reached this place as yet.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,881, London, Thursday February 1 1849.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8480).
(Classified as barque, in ballast: date of loss cited as 27 January 1849). Archibald: this vessel was wrecked on Little Scares Rock, Luce Bay.
Registration: Memel. 400 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N54 40.50 W4 41.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location of loss that is cited by Whittaker is at variance with that cited in the primary account. The latter is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 October 2009.
Loss (27 January 1849)
Stranraer, 30th Jan. The barque ARCHIBALD, of Memel, was wrecked on the Big Scaurs [Big Scare] rocks, at the entrance of the Bay of Luce, 27th inst.: chief mate and two seamen saved: the master and seven men took to the long boat, but no account of their safety has reached this place as yet.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,881, London, Thursday February 1 1849.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8480).
(Classified as barque, in ballast: date of loss cited as 27 January 1849). Archibald: this vessel was wrecked on Little Scares Rock, Luce Bay.
Registration: Memel. 400 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N54 40.50 W4 41.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (26 October 2009)
The location of loss that is cited by Whittaker is at variance with that cited in the primary account. The latter is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 October 2009.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 9032
Name : ARCHIBALD
Latitude : 544030
Longitude : 44130
Registration : MEMEL
Type : BARQUE
Tonnage : 400
Loss Day : 27
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1849
Comment : Wrecked on Little Scares Rock, Luce Bay
Cargo : BALLAST
