Chance: Portgordon, Spey Bay, Moray Firth
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Chance: Portgordon, Spey Bay, Moray Firth
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) '50 Yards East Of Port Gordon'; North Sea; Chance
Canmore ID 249562
Site Number NJ36SE 8010
NGR NJ 395 643
NGR Description NJ c. 395 643
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Moray
- Parish Maritime - Moray
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ36SE 8010 c. 395 643
N57 39.9 W3 0.9
NLO: Portgordon [name: NJ 395 643].
31 March 1854, CHANCE, of Banff, sloop, 29 ton, 3 men, Banff to Port Gordon, guano, wind NNW force 6, rain, insured for #120, stranded, Port Gordon, 50 yards east of, by stress of weather, trying to enter the harbour, with a pilot on board. The vessel very old, bilged, and not worth getting off. Return of Coastguard Officers. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 520).
(Classified as sloop with cargo of guano: date of loss cited as 31 March 1854). Chance: this vessel was wrecked 50 yards E of Portgordon. Capt. Wilson.
Registration: Banff. Built 1841. 33grt. Length: 12m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 40.00 W3 0.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The location of loss cited by Whittaker presumably refers to that of Portgordon Harbour (NJ36SE 23), which is centred at NJ 39550 64330.
Spey Bay (name centred NJ 37 67) forms an ill-defined embayment which extends over portions of several map sheets.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 August 2003.
Loss (31 March 1854)
31 March 1854, CHANCE, of Banff, sloop, 29 ton, 3 men, Banff to Port Gordon, guano, wind NNW force 6, rain, insured for #120, stranded, Port Gordon, 50 yards east of, by stress of weather, trying to enter the harbour, with a pilot on board. The vessel very old, bilged, and not worth getting off. Return of Coastguard Officers. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 520).
(Classified as sloop with cargo of guano: date of loss cited as 31 March 1854). Chance: this vessel was wrecked 50 yards E of Portgordon. Capt. Wilson.
Registration: Banff. Built 1841. 33grt. Length: 12m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 40.00 W3 0.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (22 August 2003)
(Location entered as NJ c. 395 643 [N57 39.9 W3 0.9]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The location of loss cited by Whittaker presumably refers to that of Portgordon Harbour (NJ36SE 23), which is centred at NJ 39550 64330.
Spey Bay (name centred NJ 37 67) forms an ill-defined embayment which extends over portions of several map sheets.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 August 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 995
Name : CHANCE
Latitude : 574000
Longitude : 30030
Date Built : 1841
Registration : BANFF
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 33
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 12
Beam : 4
Loss Day : 31
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1854
Comment : Wrecked 50 yards east of Portgordon. Capt. Wilson
Cargo : GUANO
