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Scotsman: Peterhead, North Sea
Brigantine (19th Century)
Site Name Scotsman: Peterhead, North Sea
Classification Brigantine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Buchan Ness'; 'at The Ropeworks, Peterhead'; 'off The Buchanness'; Scotsman
Canmore ID 275796
Site Number NK14NW 8183
NGR NK 12 45
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/275796
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Peterhead
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NK14NW 8183 unlocated
NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465]
Peterhead Bay [name centred NJ 131 454]
Buchan Ness [name: NK 137 422].
Possibly on map sheet NK14SW.
Peterhead, 10th Jan. A brig foundered off the Buchanness [Buchan Ness], seven miles to the South this morning: an oar has been washed ashore marked 'CR': crew drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,864, London, Friday January 12 1849.
Peterhead, 11th Jan. The brig which foundered off the Buchanness [Buchan Ness] yesterday morning, proves to be the SCOTSMAN, of Aberdeen, as part of her materials with her name, were cast on shore this morning.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,865, London, Saturday January 13 1849.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8462).
(Classified as brigantine: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 11 January 1849). Scotsman: this vessel foundered off Buchanness [Buchan Ness], [and subsequently] came ashore at the Ropeworks, Peterhead.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1825. 101 tons burthern. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 30.0 W1 48.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative; that of the ropeworks is unknown.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 October 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10790
Name : SCOTSMAN
Latitude : 573000
Longitude : 14800
Date Built : 1825
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : BRIGANTINE
Tonnage : 101
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 20
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 11
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1849
Comment : Foundered off Buchan Ness, came ashore at the Ropeworks, Peterhead
