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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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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

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.

Activities

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.

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