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Earl Of Fife: Banff Bar, Banff Bay, North Sea

Ship (19th Century)

Site Name Earl Of Fife: Banff Bar, Banff Bay, North Sea

Classification Ship (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Banff; River Deveron; Moray Firth; Earl Of Fife

Canmore ID 208724

Site Number NJ66SE 8007

NGR NJ 695 642

NGR Description NJ c. 695 642

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

NJ66SE 8007 c. 695 642

N57 39.9 W2 30.8

NLO: Banff Bay [name: NJ 694 643]

Banff [name: NJ 689 647].

Formerly entered at cited location NJ c. 689 645 [N57 40.2 W2 31.3].

The EARL OF FIFE, Stalker, of Banff, bound to Greenland, was driven on shore on Banff Bar 12th instant, and it was feared would be totally lost.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5067, London, Friday April 19 1816.

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5890).

(Classified as [full-rigged] ship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 12 April 1816). Earl of Fife: this vessel stranded on Banff Bar and broke up. Capt. Stalker.

Registration: Banff. Built 1814. 329 tons burthen. Length: 30m. Beam: 9m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 40.17 W2 31.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Re-entered at cited location NJ c. 695 642 [N57 40 W2 30.8]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Banff Bar is not noted as such on the current edition of the OS (GIS) MasterMap, but the term may apply to the sandspit that is depicted across the mouth of the River Deveron, at the S end of Banff Bay.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 July 2011.

Activities

Loss (12 April 1816)

The EARL OF FIFE, Stalker, of Banff, bound to Greenland, was driven on shore on Banff Bar 12th instant, and it was feared would be totally lost.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5067, London, Friday April 19 1816.

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5890).

(Classified as [full-rigged] ship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 12 April 1816). Earl of Fife: this vessel stranded on Banff Bar and broke up. Capt. Stalker.

Registration: Banff. Built 1814. 329 tons burthen. Length: 30m. Beam: 9m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 40.17 W2 31.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Named Location (Nlo) (13 February 2002)

NLO: Banff Bay [name: NJ 694 643]

Banff [name: NJ 689 647].

Formerly entered at cited location NJ c. 689 645 [N57 40.2 W2 31.3].

Note (4 July 2011)

(Re-entered at cited location NJ c. 695 642 [N57 40 W2 30.8]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Banff Bar is not noted as such on the current edition of the OS (GIS) MasterMap, but the term may apply to the sandspit that is depicted across the mouth of the River Deveron, at the S end of Banff Bay.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 July 2011.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 6342

Name : EARL OF FIFE

Latitude : 574010

Longitude : 23100

Date Built : 1814

Registration : BANFF

Type : SHIP

Tonnage : 329

Tonnage Code : B

Length : 30

Beam : 9

Loss Day : 12

Loss Month : 4

Loss Year : 1816

Comment : Stranded on Banff bar and BU. Capt. Stalker

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