Mercury: Aberdeen Entrance, North Sea
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Mercury: Aberdeen Entrance, North Sea
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen Bay; 'about A Mile North Of Aberdeen'
Canmore ID 271768
Site Number NJ90NE 8233
NGR NJ 95 07
NGR Description NJ c. 95 07
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 8233 c. 95 07
N57 9 W2 5
NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].
Not to be confused with NJ90NE 8096.
Aberdeen, 19th Feb. 'The MERCURY, Walker, of this place, went on shore at two o'clock yesterday morning, about a mile north of this, having mistaken a light on shore for the lights of the pier. If the weather moderates, it is expected the vessel may be got off'.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5780, London, Tuesday February 25 1823.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6297).
A location at NJ c. 95 07 may be suggested for this stranding, which is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998). The vessel was presumably successfully recovered.
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).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 April 2005.