Unknown: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Canmore ID 261107
Site Number NJ90NE 8193
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 8193 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].
Formerly entered in error as steamship Pleiades or Pleidaes.
Aberdeen, 18th Nov., as the PLEIADES (s), Clausen, was proceeding to sea, yesterday, she came in contact off the harbour, with a fishing boat, which was so much damaged that she sank immediately: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,213, London, Saturday November 20 [1875].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4332).
(Classified as steamship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 17 November 1875). Pleidaes: this vessel was in collision and lost off Aberdeen. Capt. Clausen.
(Location of loss cited as N57 9.0 W1 50.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
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 account given by Whittaker is misleading. The original account records the loss of the (unnamed) fishing boat, not the steamship.
Infotmation from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 March 2007.