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Scottish Maid: Boddam Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Scottish Maid: Boddam Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Buchan Ness; Peterhead; Scottish Maid
Canmore ID 262548
Site Number NK14SW 8037
NGR NK 134 426
NGR Description NK c. 134 426
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK14SW 8037 c. 134 426
N57 28.4 W1 46.6
NLO: Boddam [name: NK 134 427]
Buchan Ness [name: NK 137 422]
Peterhead [name: NK 135 465].
Peterhead, 7th Nov., the SCOTTISH MAID (Off. No. 47,209), Smith, which drifted on the rocks at Boddam yesterday, remains fast, and is bilged: she was bound for Hamburg.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,273, London, Tuesday November 12 1872.
Peterhead, 11th Nov., the SCOTTISH MAID has become a total wreck. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3866).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 7 November 1872). Scottish Maid: this vessel was wrecked at the entrance to Boddam harbour. Capt. Smith.
Registration: Banff. Built 1864. 98grt. Length: 25m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss N57 28.25 W1 46.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Boddam Harbour (NK14SW 611) is at NK 134 426.
The remains of the vessel were presumably removed without delay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 October 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 9371
Name : SCOTTISH MAID
Latitude : 572815
Longitude : 14600
Date Built : 1864
Registration : BANFF
Type : SCHOONER
Tonnage : 98
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 25
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 7
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1872
Comment : Wrecked at the entrance to Boddam Harbour. Capt. Smith
Cargo : HERRING
