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North Star: Mersehead Sands, Solway Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name North Star: Mersehead Sands, Solway Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Barnhourie Bank
Canmore ID 125036
Site Number NX95SW 8010
NGR NX 92 53
NGR Description NX c. 92 53
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NX95SW 8010 c. 92 53
N54 52 W3 41
NLO: Mersehead Sands [name centred NX 92 53]
Barnhourie [name centred NX 909 509]
Barnhourie Bank [name centred NX 90 50]
Southerness Point [name: NX 979 540].
Possibly on map sheet NX85SE.
Location formerly entered as NX 9200 5380 (N54 52.0 W3 40.9).
Not to be confused with NX85SE 8020.
NORTH STAR, 45 yrs old, of Liverpool, wooden schooner, Barnhourie Bank, Solway Firth.
[Record received incomplete].
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,784, London, Tuesday December 7 [1880],
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3057).
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The Mersehead Sands occupy an extensive area extending W and SW from Southerness or Southernness Point.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998). She was possibly refloated.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 April 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5875
Name : NORTH STAR
Latitude : 545000
Longitude : 34000
Date Built : 1835
Registration : LIVERPOOL
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 67
Position : All Gone
Loss Day : 28
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1880
Comment : Wrecked on Barnhourie Bank. Capt. Bell (Capt. Ball ?) AG to DUMFRIES 1881/1
Cargo : BALLAST
