Betty Allan: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Betty Allan: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On The Beacon Inside The Old Breakwater'; Aberdeen Bay
Canmore ID 267629
Site Number NJ90NE 8214
NGR NJ 96 05
NGR Description NJ c. 96 05
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 8214 c. 96 05
N57 8 W2 4
NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].
Glasgow, Oct. 18, BETTY ALLAN trawler, while beating into Aberdeen Harbour, Oct. 16, missed stay, and got ashore on the beacon inside the Old Breakwater, and sank.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,431, London, Tuesday October 21 [1879].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4861).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. 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.
Aberdeen Bay is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name presumably applies to the ill-defined and sand-fringed indentation that forms a shallow arc extending North from the mouth of the River Dee (at NJ 96 05).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), which may suggest that she was successfully recovered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 November 2004.