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Serepta: Tod Head, North Sea

Brig (19th Century)

Site Name Serepta: Tod Head, North Sea

Classification Brig (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Sarepta; Todhead Point; Toddhead; Serepta (Sarepta ?)

Canmore ID 197638

Site Number NO87NE 8004

NGR NO 870 769

NGR Description NO c. 870 769

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NO87NE 8004 c. 870 769

N56 53 W2 12.9

NLO: Todhead Point [name: NO 870 769]

Tod Head [name centred NO 870 768].

Location formerly entered as NO c. 869 769 [N56 53 W2 12.9].

22 December 1870, SEREPTA, 6 yrs old, brig, 203 tons, 7 crew, departed Shields for Amble, in ballast, stranded, total loss, 3 lives lost, wind ESE7, Tod Head [Todhead], Kincardine, N.B.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2406).

(Classified as brig, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 December 1870). Serepta (Sarepta?): this vessel was wrecked at Tod Head. Capt. Mann.

Registration: Amble. 203nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N56 53.00 W2 12.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Location entered as NO c. 870 769 [N56 53 W2 12.9]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The name Tod Head apparently applies to an ill-defined area to the S of Todhead Point and of the lighthouse NO87NE 19.

This vessel evidently stranded.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 October 2001.

Activities

Loss (22 December 1870)

22 December 1870, SEREPTA, 6 yrs old, brig, 203 tons, 7 crew, departed Shields for Amble, in ballast, stranded, total loss, 3 lives lost, wind ESE7, Tod Head [Todhead], Kincardine, N.B.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2406).

(Classified as brig, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 December 1870). Serepta (Sarepta?): this vessel was wrecked at Tod Head. Capt. Mann.

Registration: Amble. 203nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N56 53.00 W2 12.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Named Location (Nlo) (2 October 2001)

NLO: Todhead Point [name: NO 870 769]

Tod Head [name centred NO 870 768].

Location formerly entered as NO c. 869 769 [N56 53 W2 12.9].

Note (2 October 2001)

(Location entered as NO c. 870 769 [N56 53 W2 12.9]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The name Tod Head apparently applies to an ill-defined area to the S of Todhead Point and of the lighthouse NO87NE 19.

This vessel evidently stranded.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 October 2001.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 5348

Name : SEREPTA (SAREPTA ?)

Latitude : 565300

Longitude : 21230

Registration : AMBLE

Type : BRIG

Tonnage : 203

Tonnage Code : N

Loss Day : 22

Loss Month : 12

Loss Year : 1870

Comment : Wrecked at Tod Head. Capt. Mann

Cargo : BALLAST

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