Janus: Bullers Of Buchan, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Janus: Bullers Of Buchan, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Peterhead
Canmore ID 258812
Site Number NK13NW 8009
NGR NK 11 38
NGR Description NK c. 11 38
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK13NW 8009 c. 11 38
N57 26 W1 49
NLO: Bullers of Buchan [name: NK 111 382]
Peterhead [name: NK 135 465].
Not to be confused with HU24SE 8005.
25 February 1874, JANUS, Official No. 17,919, wooden schooner, 31 yrs old, of Inverness, 74 net tons, Owner J. McIntosh, Inverness, carrying coal (118 tons), departed N. Shields for Inverness, 5 crew, 5 lives lost, wind ESE12, foundered half mile off Bullers of Buchan, Aberdeenshire. Vessel was seen to founder in a severe storm.
List of British Sailing Ships which have been reported to the Board of Trade as having foundered between the 1st of January 1873 and the 16th of May 1880.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2941).
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 May 2004.
