St George: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Lifeboat (19th Century)
Site Name St George: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Lifeboat (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Saint George; Aberdeen Harbour Bar
Canmore ID 256064
Site Number NJ90NE 8184
NGR NJ 961 057
NGR Description NJ c. 961 057
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeen City Of
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ90NE 8184 c. 961 057
N57 8.5 W2 4
NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].
Location formerly entered as NJ c. 96 05 [N57 8 W2 4]
The Bar [name centred NJ 9657 0606].
For associated loss of Grace Darling (near Rattray Head), see NK06SE 8003.
27 February 1874, ST GEORGE, of Stonehaven, lifeboat, 12 crew, Coxswain Leiper, departed Stonehaven to assist barque GRACE DARLING, of Blyth. Capsized, partial loss, 4 lives lost, wind WSW4, bar of Aberdeen Harbour.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1873 - 74 (1875 [C.1260] LXX.161).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2472).
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Aberdeen Harbour (NJ90NE 7.00) is centred at NJ 95 05. 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.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 March 2004.