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Hero: Shandwick Bay, North Sea
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Hero: Shandwick Bay, North Sea
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bay Of Balintore; Moray Firth; Hero
Canmore ID 309772
Site Number NH87NE 8009
NGR NH 862 751
NGR Description NH c. 862 751
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NH87NE 8009 c. 862 751
N57 45.1 W3 54.8
NLO: Balintore [name: NH 866 756]
Shandwick Bay [name centred NH 862 751].
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as September 1818). Hero: hull for sale, [this vessel] stranded in the Bay of Balintore.
Registration: Peterhead. 58 tons burthern.
(Location of loss cited as N57 45.50 W3 54.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The Bay of Balintore is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but is presumably to be equated with Shandwick Bay, to the SW of Balintore village.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 February 2011.
Loss (1 September 1818 - 30 September 1818)
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as September 1818). Hero: hull for sale, [this vessel] stranded in the Bay of Balintore.
Registration: Peterhead. 58 tons burthern.
(Location of loss cited as N57 45.50 W3 54.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (25 February 2011)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The Bay of Balintore is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but is presumably to be equated with Shandwick Bay, to the SW of Balintore village.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 February 2011.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 17019
Name : HERO
Latitude : 574500
Longitude : 35400
Registration : PETERHEAD
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 58
Tonnage Code : B
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1818
Comment : Hull for sale, stranded in the Bay of Balintore.
