Eagle: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Eagle: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Eagle
Canmore ID 206408
Site Number NJ90NE 8087
NGR NJ 961 057
NGR Description NJ c. 961 057
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeen City Of
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ90NE 8087 c. 961 057
N57 8 W2 4
NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].
Possibly on map sheet NJ90NW.
Location formerly entered as NJ c. 96 05 [N57 8 W2 4].
7 December 1861, EAGLE, 16 yrs old, brig, 128 tons, 6 crew, carrying coals, stranded, total loss, 2 lives lost, wind NE10, Aberdeen harbour.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1861 (1862 [3028] LIV.845).
Aberdeen, 7th Dec. [recd., 7th, per E.T. at 11.56]. It blew a South Easterly gale all last night. The EAGLE (schr.), of this port, from Newcastle, was driven ashore on the N side of the harbour, and is a complete wreck: 2 men drowned.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 14,875, London, Saturday, December 7 1861.
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2142).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 7 December 1861). Eagle: [this vessel] stranded at the entrance to Aberdeen harbour. Capt. Mathieson.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1845. 128grt. Length: 25m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 8.50 W2 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from that ('at the entrance to Aberdeen harbour') cited by Whittaker. This remains unverified, but is accepted.
Aberdeen Harbour (NJ90NE 7.00) is centred at NJ 95 05, and extends onto map sheet NJ90NW. The present entrance extends from NJ c. 959 056 to NJ 964 059, but this location reflects development towards the East through the construction of successive piers and breakwaters.
The remains of the vessel were presumably removed without delay from this constrained location.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 January 2002.
Loss (7 December 1861)
7 December 1861, EAGLE, 16 yrs old, brig, 128 tons, 6 crew, carrying coals, stranded, total loss, 2 lives lost, wind NE10, Aberdeen harbour.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1861 (1862 [3028] LIV.845).
Aberdeen, 7th Dec. [recd., 7th, per E.T. at 11.56]. It blew a South Easterly gale all last night. The EAGLE (schr.), of this port, from Newcastle, was driven ashore on the N side of the harbour, and is a complete wreck: 2 men drowned.
Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 14,875, London, Saturday, December 7 1861.
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2142).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 7 December 1861). Eagle: [this vessel] stranded at the entrance to Aberdeen harbour. Capt. Mathieson.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1845. 128grt. Length: 25m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 8.50 W2 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (23 January 2002)
NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].
Possibly on map sheet NJ90NW.
Location formerly entered as NJ c. 96 05 [N57 8 W2 4].
Note (23 January 2002)
(Location of loss entered as NJ c. 961 057 [N57 8 W2 4]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from that ('at the entrance to Aberdeen harbour') cited by Whittaker. This remains unverified, but is accepted.
Aberdeen Harbour (NJ90NE 7.00) is centred at NJ 95 05, and extends onto map sheet NJ90NW. The present entrance extends from NJ c. 959 056 to NJ 964 059, but this location reflects development towards the East through the construction of successive piers and breakwaters.
The remains of the vessel were presumably removed without delay from this constrained location.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 January 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10396
Name : EAGLE
Latitude : 570830
Longitude : 20400
Date Built : 1845
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : BRIG (WOOD)
Tonnage : 128
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 25
Beam : 7
Loss Day : 7
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1861
Comment : Stranded at the entrance to Aberdeen Harbour. Capt. Mathieson
Cargo : COAL