Royal Eagle: Port Erroll, Bay Of Cruden, North Sea

NK03NE 8002 c. 093 359

N57 24.8 W1 50.7

NLO: Port Erroll [name: NK 093 359]

Cruden Bay [name: NK 091 364]

Bay of Cruden [name centred NK 090 348]

Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].

Possibly on map sheet NK03SE.

6 March 1881, ROYAL EAGLE, 57 yrs old, of London, Lloyd's AE. 1. (S.S. '77, 4 yrs), last survey 8.80, wooden schooner, 120 tons, 5 crew, Master D. Lewis, Owner E. Allen, Portland, departed Teignmouth for Sunderland, carrying pipe-clay, wind SE10, stranded, total loss, Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).

Peterhead, March 8, 10.10 a.m., ROYAL EAGLE, of London, is a total wreck at Cruden Bay: crew saved by apparatus.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,862, London, Wednesday March 9 [1881].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3105).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of pipe clay: date of loss cited as 6 March 1881). Royal Eagle: this vessel stranded [in[ Cruden Bay, [at] Port Erroll. Capt. Lewis.

Registration: London. Built 1824. 120 tons register.

(Location of loss cited as N57 24.67 W1 50.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Cruden Sands are not noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably refers to the extensive sands around the W side of the Bay of Cruden.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 January 2002.