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Kitty Lass: Blackpots Harbour Entrance, Boyndie Bay, North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Kitty Lass: Blackpots Harbour Entrance, Boyndie Bay, North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bf 574; Knock Head; Whitehills; Black Pots Haven; Blackpotts; Banff; Moray Firth; Kitty Lass (Bf 574)
Canmore ID 209365
Site Number NJ66NE 8006
NGR NJ 654 658
NGR Description NJ c. 654 658
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/209365
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ66NE 8006 c. 659 658
N57 40.9 W2 34.3
NLO: Banff Bay [name: NJ 695 643]
Whitehills [name: NJ 655 655]
Knock Head [name: NJ 658 661]
Blackpots [name: NJ 660 657]
Boyndie Bay [name centred NJ 671 655]
Banff [name: NJ 685 645].
11 June 1881, KITTY LASS, 6 yrs old, of Banff, wooden lugger, 10 tons, 4 crew, Master G. Lovie, Owner J. B. Lovie, Whitehills, Banff, departed Whitehills for fishing, in ballast, 4 lives lost, wind NNE5, foundered, total loss, entrance to Black Pots Haven, 2 miles W. of Banff.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3036).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as BF 574, and date of loss as 11 June 1881). Kitty Lass: this vessel foundered at the entrance to Black Pots Haven, 2 miles W of Banff. Capt. Lovie.
Registration: Whitehills. Built 1875. 10 tons register. Length: 9m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 40.83 W2 34.25).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Blackpots or Blackpotts harbour is not noted as such on the 1994 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name apparently applies to the harbour which is located at NJ 659 658 and opens onto Banff Bay.
Information from RCHMS (RJCM), 29 September 2003.
Loss (11 June 1881)
11 June 1881, KITTY LASS, 6 yrs old, of Banff, wooden lugger, 10 tons, 4 crew, Master G. Lovie, Owner J. B. Lovie, Whitehills, Banff, departed Whitehills for fishing, in ballast, 4 lives lost, wind NNE5, foundered, total loss, entrance to Black Pots Haven, 2 miles W. of Banff.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3036).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as BF 574, and date of loss as 11 June 1881). Kitty Lass: this vessel foundered at the entrance to Black Pots Haven, 2 miles W of Banff. Capt. Lovie.
Registration: Whitehills. Built 1875. 10 tons register. Length: 9m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 40.83 W2 34.25).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (20 February 2002)
NLO: Banff Bay [name: NJ 695 643]
Banff [name: NJ 689 647]
Whitehills [name: NJ 655 655]
Knock Head [name: NJ 658 661].
Note (29 September 2003)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Blackpots or Blackpotts harbour is not noted as such on the 1994 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name apparently applies to the harbour which is located at NJ 659 658 and opens onto Banff Bay.
Information from RCHMS (RJCM), 29 September 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5483
Name : KITTY LASS (BF 574)
Latitude : 574050
Longitude : 23415
Date Built : 1875
Registration : WHITEHILLS
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 10
Tonnage Code : R
Length : 9
Loss Day : 11
Loss Month : 6
Loss Year : 1881
Comment : Foundered entr to Black Pots Haven, 2 miles W of Banff. Capt. Lovie
Cargo : BALLAST
