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