Royal Eagle: Port Erroll, Bay Of Cruden, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Royal Eagle: Port Erroll, Bay Of Cruden, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen; Cruden Bay; Bay Of Cruden Sands; Royal Eagle
Canmore ID 206648
Site Number NK03NE 8002
NGR NK 093 359
NGR Description NK c. 093 359
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NK03NE 8002 c. 093 359
N57 24.8 W1 50.7
NLO: Port Erroll [name: NK 093 359]
Cruden Bay [name: NK 091 364]
Bay of Cruden [name centred NK 090 348]
Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].
Possibly on map sheet NK03SE.
6 March 1881, ROYAL EAGLE, 57 yrs old, of London, Lloyd's AE. 1. (S.S. '77, 4 yrs), last survey 8.80, wooden schooner, 120 tons, 5 crew, Master D. Lewis, Owner E. Allen, Portland, departed Teignmouth for Sunderland, carrying pipe-clay, wind SE10, stranded, total loss, Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).
Peterhead, March 8, 10.10 a.m., ROYAL EAGLE, of London, is a total wreck at Cruden Bay: crew saved by apparatus.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,862, London, Wednesday March 9 [1881].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3105).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of pipe clay: date of loss cited as 6 March 1881). Royal Eagle: this vessel stranded [in[ Cruden Bay, [at] Port Erroll. Capt. Lewis.
Registration: London. Built 1824. 120 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N57 24.67 W1 50.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Cruden Sands are not noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably refers to the extensive sands around the W side of the Bay of Cruden.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 January 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5885
Name : ROYAL EAGLE
Latitude : 572440
Longitude : 15030
Date Built : 1824
Registration : LONDON
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 120
Tonnage Code : R
Loss Day : 6
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1881
Comment : Stranded Cruden Bay at Port Erroll. Capt. Lewis
Cargo : PIPE CLAY