Halcyon: Sands Of Forvie, North Sea

NK02SW 8003 c. 010 240

N57 18.4 W1 59.0

NLO: Newburgh [name: NJ 998 254].

Possibly on map sheet NK02NW.

Formerly entered as NK02NW 8003 at cited location NK c. 01 25 [N57 19 W1 59].

6 January 1854, HALCYON, of Sunderland, brig, 170 ton, 8 men, wind ESE force 9, hazy, 8 dead, total wreck. At Newburgh, about 200 yards north of the River Ythan, by stress of weather. Coastguard Officers.

Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1854 (1854-55 (75) XXXIV.359)

Newburgh, 7th Jan. This morning, the wreck of a vessel which had come on shore during the night, was discovered at the mouth of this river; crew supposed to be drowned. From fragments of ship's papers found among the wreck, the vessel is supposed to be the brig HALCYON, of Sunderland, Bradford, Master.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,417, London, Tuesday January 10 1854

Newburgh, 7th Jan. A board, with HALCYON, cut in it, has come on shore, and on scraping away the paint from the stern of the ship, and one of the boats, the same name is distinctly traced. The vessel is all in small pieces on the beach, but no appearance of any cargo. [record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 488).

(Classified as brig: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as 6 January 1854). Halcyon: this vessel was wrecked 200 yards North of Ythanmouth.

Registration: Sunderland. 170nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N57 19.25 W1 58.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker and assuming that the current location of the mouth of the Ythan remains that at the date of stranding. The river enters the sea at NK 008 242, and the Sands of Forvie [name centred NK 018 275] occupy an extensive area to the North of this point.

Larn and Larn cite this wreck within the wrong (DA) section of their work, having evidently confused the village of Newburgh on the River Tay with that of the same name at the mouth of the Ythan. It should be in their section DB.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 September 2001.

B and R Larn 1998.