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Julian: Sandhead, Luce Bay, Solway Firth

Smack (19th Century)

Site Name Julian: Sandhead, Luce Bay, Solway Firth

Classification Smack (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Rhinns Of Galloway; Julian

Canmore ID 205654

Site Number NX15SW 8016

NGR NX 10 50

NGR Description NX c. 10 50

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NX15SW 8016 c. 10 50

N54 49 W4 57

NLO: Sandhead [name: NX 097 500]

Luce Bay [name centred NX 20 45].

Possibly on map sheets NX04NE, or NX14NW.

3rd November 1884, JULIAN, 43 yrs old, registered Douglas, Isle of Man, wooden smack, 35 tons, 3 crew. Master and Owner D. Chalmers, Drumore [Drummore]. Departed Girvan for Sandhead, Wigtownshire, carrying coal. Wind SSE10, stranded Sandhead, Luce Bay, Wigtownshire.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1950).

(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 3 November 1884). Julian: this vessel stranded at Sandhead, Luce Bay. Capt. Chalmers.

Registration: Douglas, IOM. Built 1841. 35 tons register. Length: 12m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N54 48.67 W4 57.33).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 January 2002.

Activities

Loss (3 November 1884)

3rd November 1884, JULIAN, 43 yrs old, registered Douglas, Isle of Man, wooden smack, 35 tons, 3 crew. Master and Owner D. Chalmers, Drumore [Drummore]. Departed Girvan for Sandhead, Wigtownshire, carrying coal. Wind SSE10, stranded Sandhead, Luce Bay, Wigtownshire.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1950).

(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 3 November 1884). Julian: this vessel stranded at Sandhead, Luce Bay. Capt. Chalmers.

Registration: Douglas, IOM. Built 1841. 35 tons register. Length: 12m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N54 48.67 W4 57.33).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (15 January 2002)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 January 2002.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 3441

Name : JULIAN

Latitude : 544840

Longitude : 45720

Date Built : 1841

Registration : DOUGLAS, IOM

Type : SMACK (WOOD)

Tonnage : 35

Tonnage Code : R

Length : 12

Beam : 5

Draught : 2m

Loss Day : 3

Loss Month : 11

Loss Year : 1884

Comment : Stranded Sandhead, Luce Bay. Capt. Chalmers

Cargo : COAL

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