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Penelope: North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Penelope: North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Five Miles East Of Buchan Ness'; Penelope
Canmore ID 206830
Site Number NK24SW 8002
NGR NK 23 43
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/206830
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK24SW 8002 unlocated
NLO: Buchan Ness [name: NK 137 422].
24 May 1884, PENELOPE, 29 yrs old, of Beaumaris, wooden schooner, 87 tons, 4 crew, Master R. Williams, Owner Mrs Davis, Conway, departed Bangor for Newcastle-on-Tyne, carrying slates, collided into by SS PRINCESS ALICE of Glasgow, wind NE5, total loss, about 5 miles E. of Buchan Ness, Aberdeenshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).
PRINCESS ALICE (s). Stornoway, May 26, 7 p.m. The PRINCESS ALICE (s), of Glasgow, arrived here yesterday, reports having collided with the schooner PENELOPE, of Beaumaris, off Buchanness, during a fog on morning of 24th inst. Schooner sunk: crew saved. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3498).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of slates: date of loss cited as 24 May 1884). Penelope: this vessel was in collision and sank approximately 5 miles E of Buchan Ness (Princess Alice). Capt. Hughes.
Registration: Beaumaris. Built 1855. 87 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 29.0 W1 37.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 January 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3099
Name : PENELOPE
Latitude : 572900
Longitude : 13700
Date Built : 1855
Registration : BEAUMARIS
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 87
Loss Day : 24
Loss Month : 5
Loss Year : 1884
Comment : Collision and sunk approx 5 mls E of Buchan Ness (PRINCESS ALICE). Capt. Hughes
Cargo : SLATES
