Highland Maid: Rosehearty Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Highland Maid: Rosehearty Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Entrance To The Channel At Rosehearty'; Moray Firth
Canmore ID 256567
Site Number NJ96NW 8017
NGR NJ 932 679
NGR Description NJ c. 932 679
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ96NW 8017 c. 932 679
N57 42.1 W2 6.9
NLO: Rosehearty [name: NJ 931 677].
Location formerly entered as NJ c. 934 677 [N57 42 W2 6.6].
30 July 1875, HIGHLAND MAID, 11 yrs old, of Banff, wooden smack, 14 tons, 5 crew, Master and Owner J. Gatt, Banff, departed Rosehearty for fishing, in ballast, wind NNW8, stranded entrance to the channel at Rosehearty, Co. Aberdeen.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1875 - 76 (1876 [C.1632] LXVII.191).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2580).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Rosehearty Harbour (NJ96NW 30.00) is centred at NJ 93148 67788.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998); she was presumably refloated.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 April 2004.
