Eliza Watson: Montrose Bay, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Eliza Watson: Montrose Bay, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Montrose; Eliza Watson
Canmore ID 285546
Site Number NO75NW 8152
NGR NO 73 58
NGR Description NO c. 73 58
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Angus
- Parish Maritime - Angus
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO75NW 8152 c. 73 58
N56 43 W2 27
NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]
Montrose Bay [name centred NO 743 613].
Not to be confused with NO75NW 8136.
Location formerly entered as NO c. 72 57 [N56 42 W2 27].
Montrose, 28th Sept. The ELIZA WATSON (schr.), Mearns, from Sunderland to this port, has been stranded in the bay here: vessel a wreck: part of materials saved: crew saved by lifeboat.
Source: LL, No. 16,991, London, Monday, September 28 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11494).
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 26 September 1868). Eliza Watson: this vessel was wrecked at Montrose Bay. Capt. Mearns.
Registration: Montrose. Built 1839. 50grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 43.00 W2 26.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
(Location entered as NO c. 73 58 [N56 43 W2 27]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The name Montrose Bay applies to the ill-defined and shallow indentation that extends towards the N from Scurdie Ness and the mouth of the River South Esk, and is continuously sand-fringed along its W side.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 January 2007.
Loss (26 September 1868)
Montrose, 28th Sept. The ELIZA WATSON (schr.), Mearns, from Sunderland to this port, has been stranded in the bay here: vessel a wreck: part of materials saved: crew saved by lifeboat.
Source: LL, No. 16,991, London, Monday, September 28 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11494).
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 26 September 1868). Eliza Watson: this vessel was wrecked at Montrose Bay. Capt. Mearns.
Registration: Montrose. Built 1839. 50grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 43.00 W2 26.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (4 January 2007)
(Location entered as NO c. 73 58 [N56 43 W2 27]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The name Montrose Bay applies to the ill-defined and shallow indentation that extends towards the N from Scurdie Ness and the mouth of the River South Esk, and is continuously sand-fringed along its W side.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 January 2007.
Named Location (Nlo) (4 January 2007)
NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]
Montrose Bay [name centred NO 743 613].
Not to be confused with NO75NW 8136.
Location formerly entered as NO c. 72 57 [N56 42 W2 27].
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11916
Name : ELIZA WATSON
Latitude : 564300
Longitude : 22630
Date Built : 1839
Registration : MONTROSE
Type : SCHOONER
Tonnage : 50
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 16
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 26
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1868
Comment : Wrecked at Montrose Bay. Capt. Mearns
