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Harriet: Rigg Point, Garlieston Bay, Wigtown Bay, Solway Firth

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Harriet: Rigg Point, Garlieston Bay, Wigtown Bay, Solway Firth

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Rigg Or Cruggleton Bay; Garliestown Bay; Harriet

Canmore ID 250310

Site Number NX44NE 8015

NGR NX 48 45

NGR Description NX c. 48 45

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NX44NE 8015 c. 48 45

N54 57 W4 22

NLO: Garlieston Bay [name centred NX 488 460]

Garlieston [name: NX 477 465]

Rigg or Cruggleton Bay [name centred NX 480 447]

Wigtown Bay [name centred NX 52 48].

Possibly on map sheet NX44SE.

Not to be confused with NX44NE 8003 or NX44NE 8025.

4 February 1899 HARRIET, 30 years, of Wigtown, wood schooner, 31 ton, 2 men, master D. Campbell, owner C. Highet, Garlieston, Wigtownshire. Whitehaven to Garliestown. Coal. Wind S5. Rigg Point, Garliestown Bay. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 743).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 4 February 1899). Harriet: this vessel stranded at Rigg Point, Garlieston Bay. Capt. Campbell.

Registration: Wigtown. Built 1869. 39grt. Length: 18m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N54 46.75 W4 21.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Rigg Point is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name may apply to the unnamed point immediately N of Rigg or Cruggleton Bay.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 September 2003.

Activities

Loss (4 February 1899)

4 February 1899 HARRIET, 30 years, of Wigtown, wood schooner, 31 ton, 2 men, master D. Campbell, owner C. Highet, Garlieston, Wigtownshire. Whitehaven to Garliestown. Coal. Wind S5. Rigg Point, Garliestown Bay. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 743).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 4 February 1899). Harriet: this vessel stranded at Rigg Point, Garlieston Bay. Capt. Campbell.

Registration: Wigtown. Built 1869. 39grt. Length: 18m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N54 46.75 W4 21.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (16 September 2003)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Rigg Point is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name may apply to the unnamed point immediately N of Rigg or Cruggleton Bay.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 September 2003.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 3266

Name : HARRIET

Latitude : 544645

Longitude : 42130

Date Built : 1869

Registration : WIGTOWN

Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)

Tonnage : 39

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 18

Beam : 5

Loss Day : 4

Loss Month : 2

Loss Year : 1899

Comment : Stranded Rigg Pt, Garlieston Bay. Capt. Campbell

Cargo : COAL

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