Amelie: North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Amelie: North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Four Miles From Johnshaven'; Amelie
Canmore ID 258726
Site Number NO86SE 8003
NGR NO 86 63
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/258726
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO86SE 8003 unlocated
NLO: Johnshaven [name: NO 795 670].
Formerly entered as NO76NE 8017 (unlocated).
Not to be confused with NO99SE 8004.
13 December 1878, AMELIE, 6 yrs old, of France, wooden lugger, 27 tons, 2 crew, Master and Owner P. B. Magnier, Gravelines, departed Wick for Gravelines, carrying codfish and salt, wind WSW4, foundered, total loss, 4 miles from Johnshaven, Co. Kincardine.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1878 - 79 (1880 [C.2519] LXVI.47).
Montrose, 14th Dec., 10.30 a.m., the AMELIE, of Gravelines, Moguier, from Wick to Gravelines (codfish), sprung leak after leaving, and sank last night, 4 miles off Johnshaven, 10 minutes after crew left her: crew landed at Johnshaven. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2876).
(Classified as wooden lugger, with cargo of codfish and salt: date of loss cited as 13 December 1878). This vessel foundered 4 miles from Johnshaven. Capt. Magnier.
Registration: French. Built 1872. 27 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N56 46.00 W2 13.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 May 2004.
Loss (13 December 1878)
13 December 1878, AMELIE, 6 yrs old, of France, wooden lugger, 27 tons, 2 crew, Master and Owner P. B. Magnier, Gravelines, departed Wick for Gravelines, carrying codfish and salt, wind WSW4, foundered, total loss, 4 miles from Johnshaven, Co. Kincardine.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1878 - 79 (1880 [C.2519] LXVI.47).
Montrose, 14th Dec., 10.30 a.m., the AMELIE, of Gravelines, Moguier, from Wick to Gravelines (codfish), sprung leak after leaving, and sank last night, 4 miles off Johnshaven, 10 minutes after crew left her: crew landed at Johnshaven. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2876).
(Classified as wooden lugger, with cargo of codfish and salt: date of loss cited as 13 December 1878). This vessel foundered 4 miles from Johnshaven. Capt. Magnier.
Registration: French. Built 1872. 27 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N56 46.00 W2 13.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (14 May 2004)
NLO: Johnshaven [name: NO 795 670].
Formerly entered as NO76NE 8017 (unlocated).
Not to be confused with NO99SE 8004.
Note (14 May 2004)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 May 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4453
Name : AMELIE
Latitude : 564600
Longitude : 21300
Date Built : 1872
Registration : FRENCH
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 27
Loss Day : 13
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1878
Comment : Foundered 4 miles from Johnshaven. Capt. Magnier
Cargo : CODFISH & SALT
