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Saint Andrew: Aberdeen Beach, North Sea

Craft (19th Century)

Site Name Saint Andrew: Aberdeen Beach, North Sea

Classification Craft (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) St Andrew; Aberdeen Harbour; 'back Of North Pier'

Canmore ID 270672

Site Number NJ90NE 8225

NGR NJ 96 05

NGR Description NJ c. 96 05

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Aberdeen, City Of
  • Parish Maritime - Aberdeen City Of
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NJ90NE 8225 c. 96 05

N57 8 W2 4

NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05]

Girdle Ness [name: NJ 973 053].

See also NJ90NE 8047, NJ90NE 8048, NJ90NE 8226 and NJ90NE 8227.

Not to be confused with NJ90NE 8248.

Possibly within Maritime - Aberdeenshire.

Formerly entered as Unlocated.

The HERCULES: OSCAR: ST. ANDREW: MIDDLETON: and LATONA, bound to Greenland, sailed from Aberdeen 1st instant, but a gale coming on to the east, the former was driven on shore at the back of the North Pier: and the OSCAR was totally lost on the rocks between the Girdle [Girdleness] and Shirtness. Forty-eight people drowned. The three others with much difficulty got back.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4759, London, Tuesday April 6 1813.

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5771).

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. This vessel evidently stranded near the S end of Aberdeen Beach, to the N of the North Pier (NJ90NE 7.02) at the entrance to Aberdeen Harbour. This structure extends from NJ 9590 0570 to NJ 9639 0609.

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 Beach is not noted as such on the current edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name evidently applies to the southern part of the lengthy and gently-curving sand-dune coast that stretches Northwards from Aberdeen, from NJ 95 06 to NK 02 26.

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).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 February 2005.

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