Nelly: Montrose Harbour Approach, North Sea
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Nelly: Montrose Harbour Approach, North Sea
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On Rocks Off Montrose'; Scurdie Ness; Ferryden; River South Esk; Nelly
Canmore ID 248383
Site Number NO75NW 8075
NGR NO 725 568
NGR Description NO c. 725 568
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Angus
- Parish Maritime - Angus
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO75NW 8075 c. 725 568
N56 42.1 W2 27.0
NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]
Ferryden [name: NO 718 567]
Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].
Location formerly entered as NO c. 72 56 [N56 42 W2 27].
28 February 1852, NELLY, of Montrose, sloop, 47 ton, 4 men, Alloa to Montrose, coal, wind N force 7 clear, 6 am, tide ? hour of high water, no exams, vessel age 67, value #40, not insured, cargo #30, not insured, place - Montrose. Missed stays when beating into and drove on rocks. Jno Thow = Master; Stapleton = owner of Montrose. Return of Coastguard Officers.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of the UK 1852 (1852-53 (983) LXI.1)
Montrose, 28th Feb. The NELLY, Thom, from the Frith, in beating into the harbour this morning missed stays and drove on the rocks above the lowermost beacon, where she is likely to become a total wreck. [record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 344).
(Classified as sloop with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 28 February 1852). Nelly: [this vessel] stranded on rocks off Montrose. Capt. Trow. (Not in Montrose loss list).
Registration: Montrose. Built 1785. 47nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N56 41.50 W2 26.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
(Location re-entered as NO c. 725 568 [N56 42.1 W2 27.0]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss ('on rocks off Montrose') that is cited by Whittaker.
Montrose Harbour or the Port of Montrose (NO75NW 44.00) occupies an ill-defined area around NO 7123 5121. It does not have a clearly-defined entrance, but is approached (from the E) between the extensive estuarine sandbanks of the River South Esk, which extend as far E as Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].
The 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map indicates a continuous rocky shore along the S side of the Esk between Ferryden and Scurdie Ness, opposite (to the S of) these sandbanks.
In the absence of any offshore rocks in or near the estuary of the River South Esk, a location of loss may be suggested for this vessel on this rocky shore
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 November 2011.
Loss (28 February 1852)
28 February 1852, NELLY, of Montrose, sloop, 47 ton, 4 men, Alloa to Montrose, coal, wind N force 7 clear, 6 am, tide ? hour of high water, no exams, vessel age 67, value #40, not insured, cargo #30, not insured, place - Montrose. Missed stays when beating into and drove on rocks. Jno Thow = Master; Stapleton = owner of Montrose. Return of Coastguard Officers.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of the UK 1852 (1852-53 (983) LXI.1)
Montrose, 28th Feb. The NELLY, Thom, from the Frith, in beating into the harbour this morning missed stays and drove on the rocks above the lowermost beacon, where she is likely to become a total wreck. [record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 344).
(Classified as sloop with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 28 February 1852). Nelly: [this vessel] stranded on rocks off Montrose. Capt. Trow. (Not in Montrose loss list).
Registration: Montrose. Built 1785. 47nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N56 41.50 W2 26.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (5 August 2003)
NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]
Ferryden [name: NO 718 567]
Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].
Location formerly entered as NO c. 72 56 [N56 42 W2 27].
Note (18 November 2011)
(Location re-entered as NO c. 725 568 [N56 42.1 W2 27.0]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss ('on rocks off Montrose') that is cited by Whittaker.
Montrose Harbour or the Port of Montrose (NO75NW 44.00) occupies an ill-defined area around NO 7123 5121. It does not have a clearly-defined entrance, but is approached (from the E) between the extensive estuarine sandbanks of the River South Esk, which extend as far E as Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].
The 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map indicates a continuous rocky shore along the S side of the Esk between Ferryden and Scurdie Ness, opposite (to the S of) these sandbanks.
In the absence of any offshore rocks in or near the estuary of the River South Esk, a location of loss may be suggested for this vessel on this rocky shore
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 November 2011.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5044
Name : NELLY
Latitude : 564130
Longitude : 22600
Date Built : 1785
Registration : MONTROSE
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 47
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 28
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1852
Comment : Stranded on rocks off Montrose. Capt. Thow [Not in MONTROSE loss list]
Cargo : COAL