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Mary: North Sea
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Mary: North Sea
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Peterhead
Canmore ID 249463
Site Number NK14NW 8123
NGR NK
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK14NW 8123 unlocated
NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465].
6 December 1853, MARY, of Aberdeen, Inverness to London, potatoes, wind W force 4, fine, abandoned. Off Stonehaven, in a sinking state. Crew saved. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette. Lloyds List.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1853 (1854 (337) XLII.647)
Aberdeen, 14th Dec. The MARY, of this port, with potatoes, for London, was abandoned in a sinking state off Stonehaven, during the late gale; crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,398, London, Monday December 18 1853.
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 477).
(Classified as 'Herm' [hermaphrodite brig] with cargo of potatoes: date of loss cited as 6 December 1853). This vessel was abandoned sinking off Peterhead.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet allocated to this record is arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2003.
