Leon Raymundo: Boar's Head Rock, Spey Bay, Moray Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Leon Raymundo: Boar's Head Rock, Spey Bay, Moray Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On The Boar's Head Rocks, 5 Miles East Of Lossiemouth'; North Sea; Leon Raymundo
Canmore ID 267462
Site Number NJ26NE 8011
NGR NJ 289 679
NGR Description NJ c. 289 679
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Moray
- Parish Maritime - Moray
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ26NE 8011 c. 289 679
N57 41.7 W3 11.6
NLO: Spey Bay [name centred NJ 37 67]
Boar's Head Rock [name: NJ 289 679]
Buckie [name: NJ 415 654]
Cullen [name: NJ 513 673]
Lossiemouth [name: NJ 235 705].
Not to be confused with NH86NW 8010.
Possibly on map sheet NJ36NW.
Lossiemouth, 21st Apl., 4 p.m., the schooner LEON RAYMUNDO, of Dover, Clark, from Rochester to Buckie, with cement, stranded on the Boar's Head rocks, 5 miles East of Lossiemouth, at 11 o'clock last night, and is likely to become a total wreck. Meantime all necessary assistance has been sent. Crew saved and now at Lossiemouth.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,966, London, Tuesday April 23 1878.
Lossiemouth, 29th Apl., 12.10 p.m., the LEON RAYMUNDO, from Rochester to Buckie, cement, reported stranded at Bearshead, Spey bay, on 19th inst., got safely off strand and into Lossiemouth harbour this morning: damage to ship considerable, to cargo slight.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,971, London, Tuesday April 30 1878.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4734).
(No classification specified: cargo cited as cement, and date of loss as 20 April 1878). Leon Raymundo: this vessel stranded at Boar's Head [Rock], Lossiemouth.
Registration: Dover.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.75 W3 11.33).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Boar's Head Rock is an isolated rock which stands at the (N) end of small sandy spit roughly at the midpoint of the sandy shore of Spey Bay (name centred NJ 37 67), an ill-defined embayment which extends over portions of several map sheets. The settlement of Spey Bay is at NJ 354 652.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 October 2004.
Loss (20 April 1878)
Lossiemouth, 21st Apl., 4 p.m., the schooner LEON RAYMUNDO, of Dover, Clark, from Rochester to Buckie, with cement, stranded on the Boar's Head rocks, 5 miles East of Lossiemouth, at 11 o'clock last night, and is likely to become a total wreck. Meantime all necessary assistance has been sent. Crew saved and now at Lossiemouth.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,966, London, Tuesday April 23 1878.
Lossiemouth, 29th Apl., 12.10 p.m., the LEON RAYMUNDO, from Rochester to Buckie, cement, reported stranded at Bearshead, Spey bay, on 19th inst., got safely off strand and into Lossiemouth harbour this morning: damage to ship considerable, to cargo slight.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,971, London, Tuesday April 30 1878.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4734).
(No classification specified: cargo cited as cement, and date of loss as 20 April 1878). Leon Raymundo: this vessel stranded at Boar's Head [Rock], Lossiemouth.
Registration: Dover.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.75 W3 11.33).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (27 October 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Boar's Head Rock is an isolated rock which stands at the (N) end of small sandy spit roughly at the midpoint of the sandy shore of Spey Bay (name centred NJ 37 67), an ill-defined embayment which extends over portions of several map sheets. The settlement of Spey Bay is at NJ 354 652.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 October 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 12523
Name : LEON RAYMUNDO
Latitude : 574145
Longitude : 31120
Registration : DOVER
Loss Day : 20
Loss Month : 4
Loss Year : 1878
Comment : Stranded at Boar's Head, Lossiemouth.
Cargo : CEMENT