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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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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

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.

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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

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