Flowers: Gardenstown Harbour Entrance, Gamrie Bay, North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Flowers: Gardenstown Harbour Entrance, Gamrie Bay, North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Entrance To Gardenstown Harbour, Banff'; Moray Firth; Flowers
Canmore ID 206469
Site Number NJ76SE 8001
NGR NJ 798 649
NGR Description NJ c. 798 649
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ76SE 8001 c. 798 649
N57 40.4 W2 20.3
NLO: Gardenstown [name: NJ 800 648]
Gamrie Bay [name centred NJ 798 654].
Possibly on map sheet NJ76NE.
22 March 1870, FLOWERS, 6 yrs old, lugger, 15 tons, 9 crew, departed Gardenstown, for fishing, in ballast, stranded, total loss, 1 life lost, wind N9, entrance to Gardenstown Harbour, Banff.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2398).
(Classified as lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 March 1870). Flowers: this vessel stranded at the entrance to Gardenstown harbour.
Built 1864. 15nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N57 40.50 W2 20.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of map sheet NJ76NE.
Gardenstown Harbour (NJ76SE 17) is centred at NJ 79930 64830.
The remains of the vessel were presumably removed wothout delay from this constrained location.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 January 2002.
Loss (22 March 1870)
22 March 1870, FLOWERS, 6 yrs old, lugger, 15 tons, 9 crew, departed Gardenstown, for fishing, in ballast, stranded, total loss, 1 life lost, wind N9, entrance to Gardenstown Harbour, Banff.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2398).
(Classified as lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 March 1870). Flowers: this vessel stranded at the entrance to Gardenstown harbour.
Built 1864. 15nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N57 40.50 W2 20.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (24 January 2002)
NLO: Gardenstown [name: NJ 800 648]
Gamrie Bay [name centred NJ 798 654].
Possibly on map sheet NJ76NE.
Note (24 January 2002)
(Location entered as NJ c. 798 649 [N57 40.4 W2 20.3]. The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of map sheet NJ76NE.
Gardenstown Harbour (NJ76SE 17) is centred at NJ 79930 64830.
The remains of the vessel were presumably removed without delay from this constrained location.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 January 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5356
Name : FLOWERS
Latitude : 574030
Longitude : 22000
Date Built : 1864
Type : LUGGER
Tonnage : 15
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 22
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1870
Comment : Stranded entr to Gardenstown Hbr
Cargo : BALLAST
