Scottish Maid: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Barque (19th Century)
Site Name Scottish Maid: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Barque (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen Bay; Aberdeen Harbour, Bar
Canmore ID 206453
Site Number NJ90NE 8090
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 8090 c. 961 058
N57 8.5 W2 4
NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05]
The Bar [name centred NJ 9657 0606].
Location of loss formerly entered as NJ c. 96 05 [N57 8 W2 4].
18th December 1858, SCOTTISH MAID, Master John Henderson, stranded on Aberdeen Bar. Inquiry ordered before the Local Marine Board, Aberdeen. Casualty occurred through an error of judgement on the part of the pilot.
Precis of Special Inquiries into Casualties, ordered by the Board of Trade during the Year 1859.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2042).
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Aberdeen Harbour (NJ90NE 7.00) is centred at NJ 95 05.
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 current edition of the OS (GIS) MasterMap notes The Bar [NAT] at NJ 9657 0606, but this may reflect accretion of sand resulting from the construction of the present North Pier and South Breakwater.
Aberdeen Bay is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name presumably applies to the ill-defined and sand-fringed indentation that forms a shallow arc extending North from the mouth of the River Dee (at NJ 96 05).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 March 2009.