Betsy: Peterhead Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Betsy: Peterhead Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Canmore ID 292163
Site Number NK14NW 8292
NGR NK 136 452
NGR Description NK c. 136 452
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK14NW 8292 c. 136 452
N57 29.8 W1 46.4
NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465]
Peterhead Bay [name centred NJ 131 454].
Possibly on map sheet NK14SW.
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 4 May 1823). Betsy: this vessel stranded at the entrance to Peterhead Harbour. Capt. Cowir. Possibly all gone.
Registration: Nairn. Built 1815. 66 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 30.0 W1 46.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The loss is taken to have occurred at or near the seaward harbour entrance.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 31 December 2007.
