Worthy: Peterhead, South Harbour, North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Worthy: Peterhead, South Harbour, North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ky 1231; Peterhead Bay; Peterhead Harbour; 'on The Rocks... Near The South Harbour'; Worthy (Ky 1231)
Canmore ID 206548
Site Number NK14NW 8068
NGR NK 137 459
NGR Description NK c. 137 459
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK14NW 8068 c. 137 459
N57 30.2 W1 46.3
NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465]
Peterhead Bay [name centred NJ 131 454].
Location formerly cited as NK c. 13 45 [N57 30 W1 47] and NK c. 137 459 [N57 30.2 W1 46.3], and also as NK c. 1351 4559
[N57 30.03 W1 46.47].
3 August 1876, WORTHY, 13 yrs old, of Kirkcaldy, wooden lugger, 15 tons, 7 crew, Master and Owner W. Watson, Cellardyke, Fifeshire, departed Peterhead for fishing, in ballast, wind S9, stranded, rocks near the South Harbour, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2678).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as KY 1231, and date of loss as 3 August 1876). Worthy: this vessel stranded on rocks near the South Harbour, Peterhead. Capt. Watson.
Registration: Cellardyke. Built 1863. 15grt. Length: 12m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 30.0 W1 47.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The current edition of the OS (GIS) AIB notes South Harbour at [name centred] NK 1370 4594.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 December 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5511
Name : WORTHY (KY 1231)
Latitude : 573000
Longitude : 14700
Date Built : 1863
Registration : CELLARDYKE
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 15
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 12
Loss Day : 3
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1876
Comment : Stranded on rocks near South Hbr, Peterhead. Capt. Watson
Cargo : BALLAST