Nineveh: Balgownie Links, North Sea
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Nineveh: Balgownie Links, North Sea
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ninevah; Aberdeen; 'one Mile North Of The Mouth Of The River Don'; 'one Mile North Of Donmouth'; Nineveh
Canmore ID 258855
Site Number NJ91SE 8017
NGR NJ 95 11
NGR Description NJ c. 95 11
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeen City Of
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ91SE 8017 c. 95 11
N57 11 W2 5
NLO: Balgownie Links [name centred NJ 960 123]
Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].
Possibly on map sheet NJ90NE.
Possibly within Maritime - Aberdeenshire.
10 July 1879, NINEVEH, 15 yrs old, not registered, wooden sloop, 10 tons, 2 crew, Master J. Walker, Owner W. M. Noble, Fraserburgh, departed Methil, Fifeshire, for Fraserburgh, carrying coal, wind ESE6, stranded, 1 mile N. of the mouth of the River Don, Co. Aberdeen.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
Aberdeen, July 2, NINEVAH, a boat of 10 tons, from Methil for Fraserburgh, with coal, totally wrecked yesterday one mile north of Donmouth: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,338, London, Friday July 4 1879.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2954).
(Classified as wooden sloop, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 10 July 1879). Nineveh: this vessel stranded one mile North of the River Don. Capt. Walker.
Not Registered. Built 1864. 10 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 11.50 W2 3.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. A location near Balgownie Links may be suggested for the loss of this vessel, which may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Aberdeenshire.
Donmouth or Don Mouth is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map; the River Don enters the sea at NJ 955 095.
The date of loss cited is inferred from the primary account, and is preferred over that cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 May 2004.
Loss (1 July 1879)
10 July 1879, NINEVEH, 15 yrs old, not registered, wooden sloop, 10 tons, 2 crew, Master J. Walker, Owner W. M. Noble, Fraserburgh, departed Methil, Fifeshire, for Fraserburgh, carrying coal, wind ESE6, stranded, 1 mile N. of the mouth of the River Don, Co. Aberdeen.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
Aberdeen, July 2, NINEVAH, a boat of 10 tons, from Methil for Fraserburgh, with coal, totally wrecked yesterday one mile north of Donmouth: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,338, London, Friday July 4 1879.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2954).
(Classified as wooden sloop, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 10 July 1879). Nineveh: this vessel stranded one mile North of the River Don. Capt. Walker.
Not Registered. Built 1864. 10 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 11.50 W2 3.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (18 May 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. A location near Balgownie Links may be suggested for the loss of this vessel, which may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Aberdeenshire.
Donmouth or Don Mouth is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map; the River Don enters the sea at NJ 955 095.
The date of loss cited is inferred from the primary account, and is preferred over that cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 May 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5803
Name : NINEVEH
Latitude : 571130
Longitude : 20330
Date Built : 1864
Registration : Not Registered
Type : SLOOP (WOOD)
Tonnage : 10
Loss Day : 10
Loss Month : 7
Loss Year : 1879
Comment : Stranded 1 mile north of the River Don. Capt. Walker
Cargo : COAL
