Adeventure: Solway Firth
Ship (18th Century)
Site Name Adeventure: Solway Firth
Classification Ship (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kirkandrews; 'about 5 Miles West Of The Mouth Of The River Dee'
Canmore ID 249996
Site Number NX54NE 8013
NGR NX
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NX54NE 8013 unlocated
1797 the ship ADVENTURE, of New York (Zachariah Swaine, master) laden with flax-seed, fruit etc., was wrecked about 5 miles west of the mouth of the River Dee and the cargo destroyed.
Source: PP Return of Shipwrecks on the Coast of Scotland (1836 (232) [record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 591).
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. A location in the Kirkandrews area [Kirkandrews Bay: name centred NX 593 478] may be suggested for the loss, which is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 September 2003.
