John: Kinnaird Head, North Sea
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name John: Kinnaird Head, North Sea
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Fraserburgh; John
Canmore ID 268833
Site Number NJ96NE 8039
NGR NJ 998 676
NGR Description NJ c. 998 676
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ96NE 8039 c. 998 676
N57 41.9 W2 0.2
NLO: Kinnaird Head [name: NJ 998 676]
Fraserburgh [name: NK 000 666]
Fraserburgh Bay [name centred NK 017 662].
Formerly entered as NK06NW 8086 at cited location NK c. 00 66 [N57 41 W2 0].
Possibly on map sheet NK06NW.
Peterhead, 2d March. 'The sloop JOHN of Macduff, laden with grain, missed stays, and went on shore at Fraserburgh yesterday morning.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5679, London, Friday March 8 1822.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6186).
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 1 March 1822). John: this vessel stranded at Kinnaird Head.
Registration: Macduff. Built 1811. 50 tons burthern. Length: 13m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 42.0 W2 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 November 2004.
Loss (1 March 1822)
Peterhead, 2d March. 'The sloop JOHN of Macduff, laden with grain, missed stays, and went on shore at Fraserburgh yesterday morning.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5679, London, Friday March 8 1822.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6186).
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 1 March 1822). John: this vessel stranded at Kinnaird Head.
Registration: Macduff. Built 1811. 50 tons burthern. Length: 13m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 42.0 W2 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (29 November 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 November 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 10595
Name : JOHN
Latitude : 574200
Longitude : 20000
Date Built : 1811
Registration : MACDUFF
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 50
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 13
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 1
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1822
Comment : Stranded at Kinnaird Head.