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Maria: Craig Duff, Portsoy, North Sea
Galliot (19th Century)
Site Name Maria: Craig Duff, Portsoy, North Sea
Classification Galliot (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Craigduff; Portsoy Harbour Entrance; Moray Firth; Maria
Canmore ID 209344
Site Number NJ56NE 8004
NGR NJ 590 665
NGR Description NJ c. 590 665
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/209344
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ56NE 8004 c. 590 665
N57 41.2 W2 41.4
NLO: Craig Duff [name: NJ 590 665]
Portsoy [name: NJ 590 665].
Location formerly entered as NJ c. 590 664 [N57 41.1 W2 41.3].
30 November 1877, MARIA, 20 yrs old, of Germany, wooden galliot, 68 tons, 4 crew, Master G. G. Buss, Owner A. T. Schapp, Grossefehn, Hanover, departed St Petersburg for Portsoy, carrying bones, wind SSE3, stranded, Craigduff [Craig Duff], mouth of Portsoy Harbour, Banffshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).
Portsoy, 30th Nov., 7.33 p.m., the schooner MARIA, of 'Grosven', got ashore at Portsoy, at 6.30 p.m.: crew, 4 men, saved by apparatus.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,845, London, Saturday December 1 1877.
Portsoy, 1st Dec., the MARIA (galliot), of Grossefehn, Buss, from St. Petersburg to this port, with bones, was totally wrecked in entering the harbour here 28th Nov.: nothing lost.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,847, London, Tuesday December 4 [1877].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2841).
(Classified as wooden galliot, with cargo of bones: date of loss cited as 30 November 1877). Maria: this vessel stranded at Craigduff [Craig Duff], at the mouth of Portsoy harbour. Capt. Bass.
Registration: German. Built 1857. 64 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.25 W2 41.25).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is is essentially tentative. Craigduff is not noted as such on the 1994 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to Craig Duff, which the current edition of the OS (GIS) MasterMap depicts as a rocky promontory to the NE of the inlet that contains both the Old harbour (NJ56NE 13.00 centred 58894 66347) and the New Harbour (NJ56NE 39.00: NJ 5905 6645) at Portsoy.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 April 2011.
Loss (30 November 1877)
30 November 1877, MARIA, 20 yrs old, of Germany, wooden galliot, 68 tons, 4 crew, Master G. G. Buss, Owner A. T. Schapp, Grossefehn, Hanover, departed St Petersburg for Portsoy, carrying bones, wind SSE3, stranded, Craigduff [Craig Duff], mouth of Portsoy Harbour, Banffshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).
Portsoy, 30th Nov., 7.33 p.m., the schooner MARIA, of 'Grosven', got ashore at Portsoy, at 6.30 p.m.: crew, 4 men, saved by apparatus.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,845, London, Saturday December 1 1877.
Portsoy, 1st Dec., the MARIA (galliot), of Grossefehn, Buss, from St. Petersburg to this port, with bones, was totally wrecked in entering the harbour here 28th Nov.: nothing lost.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,847, London, Tuesday December 4 [1877].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2841).
(Classified as wooden galliot, with cargo of bones: date of loss cited as 30 November 1877). Maria: this vessel stranded at Craigduff [Craig Duff], at the mouth of Portsoy harbour. Capt. Bass.
Registration: German. Built 1857. 64 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.25 W2 41.25).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (4 April 2011)
The location assigned to this record is is essentially tentative. Craigduff is not noted as such on the 1994 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to Craig Duff, which the current edition of the OS (GIS) MasterMap depicts as a rocky promontory to the NE of the inlet that contains both the Old harbour (NJ56NE 13.00 centred 58894 66347) and the New Harbour (NJ56NE 39.00: NJ 5905 6645) at Portsoy.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 April 2011.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4443
Name : MARIA
Latitude : 574115
Longitude : 24115
Date Built : 1857
Registration : GERMAN
Type : GALLIOT (WOOD)
Tonnage : 64
Tonnage Code : R
Loss Day : 30
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1877
Comment : Stranded Craigduff, mouth of Portsoy Hbr. Capt Bass
Cargo : BONES
