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Hirpa: Buckie Harbour, North Sea
Whaler (20th Century)
Site Name Hirpa: Buckie Harbour, North Sea
Classification Whaler (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Cluny Harbour; Moray Firth; Hirpa
Canmore ID 311482
Site Number NJ46NW 8061
NGR NJ 430 660
NGR Description NJ c. 430 660
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
Loss (26 October 1884)
(Classified as steel whaler [whaling ship]: date of loss cited as 2 January 1918). Hirpa: this vessel stranded at Cluny Harbour, Buckie.
Registration: Leith. Built 1911. 110grt. Length: 27m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 40.50 W2 59.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (30 June 2011)
NLO: Buckie [name: NJ 415 654]
Spey Bay [name centred NJ 37 67].
Note (30 June 2011)
(Location entered as NJ c. 430 660 [N57 40.8 W2 57.4]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Buckie (Cluny) Harbour (NJ46NW 15.00) is centred at NJ 42883 66017.
The remains of the vessel were presumably removed without delay from this constrained location.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 2011.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 176
Name : HIRPA
Latitude : 574030
Longitude : 25900
Date Built : 1911
Registration : LEITH
Type : WHALER (STEEL)
Tonnage : 110
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 27
Beam : 6
Draught : 3m
Loss Day : 2
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1918
Comment : Stranded at Cluny Harbour, Buckie
