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Queen: Aberdeen Beach, Aberdeen Bay, North Sea

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Queen: Aberdeen Beach, Aberdeen Bay, North Sea

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen Harbour, North Pier; 'near The North Pier, Aberdeen'; ' Half A Mile North Of The Pier, [at] Aberdeen [harbour'; Queen

Canmore ID 206822

Site Number NJ90NE 8114

NGR NJ 95 07

NGR Description NJ c. 95 07

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeen, City Of
  • Parish Maritime - Aberdeen City Of
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NJ90NE 8114 c. 95 07

N57 9 W2 5

NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05]

Aberdeen Bay [name centred NJ 956 075].

Location formerly entered in error as NJ c. 96 05 [N57 8 W2 4].

30 March 1883, QUEEN, 22 yrs old, of Inverness, wooden schooner, 87 tons, 4 crew, Master and Owner J. Paterson, North Kessock, Inverness, departed Sunderland for Bonar Bridge, Sutherlandshire, carrying coal, wind SSE10, stranded, total loss, near the N. Pier, Aberdeen.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1882-83 (1884 [C.4154] LXXI.621).

QUEEN. Bridge of Don (By Tel. dated Old Aberdeen March 30, 9 a.m.). The schooner QUEEN, of Inverness, from Sunderland (coals), stranded half a mile north of the pier, Aberdeen, to-day, at 3 30 a.m., and will most probably become a total wreck: crew saved. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3374).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 30 March 1883). Queen: this vessel stranded near [the] North Pier, Aberdeen [Harbour]. Capt. Paterson.

Registration: Inverness. Built 1960. 87grt. Length: 23m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 8.83 W2 4.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unceratin whether the vessel stranded within Aberdeen harbour entrance or (more probably) to the N of the pier, within the southern part of Aberdeen Beach. In the former case, her remains were presumably removed without delay from this cconstrained location.

Aberdeen Beach is not noted as such on the current edition of the OS (GIS) MasterMap, but the name evidently applies to the southern part of the lengthy and gently-curving sand-dune coast that stretches Northwards from Aberdeen, from NJ 95 06 to NK 02 26.

Aberdeen Harbour (NJ90NE 7.00) is centred at NJ 95 05, and the North Pier (NJ90NE 7.02) extends from NJ 9590 0570 to NJ 9639 0609. The present entrance may be considered to lie at NJ c. 963 060, but this location reflects development towards the East through the construction of successive piers and breakwaters.

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).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 January 2002.

Activities

Loss (30 March 1883)

30 March 1883, QUEEN, 22 yrs old, of Inverness, wooden schooner, 87 tons, 4 crew, Master and Owner J. Paterson, North Kessock, Inverness, departed Sunderland for Bonar Bridge, Sutherlandshire, carrying coal, wind SSE10, stranded, total loss, near the N. Pier, Aberdeen.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1882-83 (1884 [C.4154] LXXI.621).

QUEEN. Bridge of Don (By Tel. dated Old Aberdeen March 30, 9 a.m.). The schooner QUEEN, of Inverness, from Sunderland (coals), stranded half a mile north of the pier, Aberdeen, to-day, at 3 30 a.m., and will most probably become a total wreck: crew saved. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3374).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 30 March 1883). Queen: this vessel stranded near [the] North Pier, Aberdeen [Harbour]. Capt. Paterson.

Registration: Inverness. Built 1960. 87grt. Length: 23m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 8.83 W2 4.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Named Location (Nlo) (28 January 2002)

NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05]

Aberdeen Bay [name centred NJ 956 075].

Note (28 January 2002)

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unceratin whether the vessel stranded within Aberdeen harbour entrance or (more probably) to the N of the pier, within the southern part of Aberdeen Beach. In the former case, her remains were presumably removed without delay from this cconstrained location.

Aberdeen Beach is not noted as such on the current edition of the OS (GIS) MasterMap, but the name evidently applies to the southern part of the lengthy and gently-curving sand-dune coast that stretches Northwards from Aberdeen, from NJ 95 06 to NK 02 26.

Aberdeen Harbour (NJ90NE 7.00) is centred at NJ 95 05, and the North Pier (NJ90NE 7.02) extends from NJ 9590 0570 to NJ 9639 0609. The present entrance may be considered to lie at NJ c. 963 060, but this location reflects development towards the East through the construction of successive piers and breakwaters.

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).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 January 2002.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 3362

Name : QUEEN

Latitude : 570850

Longitude : 20400

Date Built : 1860

Registration : INVERNESS

Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)

Tonnage : 87

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 23

Beam : 6

Loss Day : 30

Loss Month : 3

Loss Year : 1883

Comment : Stranded near north pier, Aberdeen. Capt. Paterson

Cargo : COAL

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