Grampion: North Pier, Aberdeen Harbour, North Sea
Brigantine (19th Century)
Site Name Grampion: North Pier, Aberdeen Harbour, North Sea
Classification Brigantine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Grampian; Aberdeen Harbour, North Pier; Aberdeen Harbour Entrance; Aberdeen Beach; Grampian (Grampion ?)
Canmore ID 272437
Site Number NJ90NE 8239
NGR NJ 963 060
NGR Description NJ c. 963 060
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 8239 c. 963 060
N57 8.7 W2 3.8
NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].
See also NJ90NE 8238.
Location formerly entered as NJ c. 96 05 [N57 8 W2 4].
Aberdeen, 22d Jan. 'It blew a heavy gale yesterday from ESE to SE, with snow and rain, and a tremendous sea, and continues today from ESE to SSE. The FAME, Clark, from London to Inverness, &c., was driven on shore near this port yesterday morning, and is water-logged. Passengers and crew, except two of the latter, saved by Capt. Manby's apparatus. About half the cargo has been got out, but most of it in a very damaged state. The GRAMPION, of this port is wrecked on the North Pier, and 2 of the crew drowned.' [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6682).
(Classified as brigantine: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 22 January 1830). Grampian (Grampion?): this vessel was wrecked at [the] North Pier, Aberdeen. Capt. Gordon.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1814. 114 tons burthern. Length: 20m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 8.63 W2 3.67).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unclear whether this vessel stranded on the S side of the pier (within the harbour entrance) or on the N side (off the S end of Aberdeen Beach). In the former eventuality, her remains were presumably removed without delay from this constrained location.
Aberdeen Harbour (NJ90NE 7.00) is centred at NJ 95 05. The North Pier (NJ90NE 7.02) was built in three stages, and now extends from NJ 9590 0570 to NJ 9639 0609. The present harbour 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 (GIS) MasterMap, 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.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 May 2005.
Loss (22 January 1830)
Aberdeen, 22d Jan. 'It blew a heavy gale yesterday from ESE to SE, with snow and rain, and a tremendous sea, and continues today from ESE to SSE. The FAME, Clark, from London to Inverness, &c., was driven on shore near this port yesterday morning, and is water-logged. Passengers and crew, except two of the latter, saved by Capt. Manby's apparatus. About half the cargo has been got out, but most of it in a very damaged state. The GRAMPION, of this port is wrecked on the North Pier, and 2 of the crew drowned.' [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6682).
(Classified as brigantine: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 22 January 1830). Grampian (Grampion?): this vessel was wrecked at [the] North Pier, Aberdeen. Capt. Gordon.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1814. 114 tons burthern. Length: 20m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 8.63 W2 3.67).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (16 May 2005)
NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].
See also NJ90NE 8238.
Location formerly entered as NJ c. 96 05 [N57 8 W2 4].
Note (16 May 2005)
(Location of loss cited as NJ c. 963 060 [N57 8.7 W2 3.8]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unclear whether this vessel stranded on the S side of the pier (within the harbour entrance) or on the N side (off the S end of Aberdeen Beach). In the former eventuality, her remains were presumably removed without delay from this constrained location.
Aberdeen Harbour (NJ90NE 7.00) is centred at NJ 95 05. The North Pier (NJ90NE 7.02) was built in three stages, and now extends from NJ 9590 0570 to NJ 9639 0609. The present harbour 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 (GIS) MasterMap, 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.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 May 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 7422
Name : GRAMPIAN (GRAMPION ?)
Latitude : 570838
Longitude : 20340
Date Built : 1814
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : BRIGANTINE
Tonnage : 114
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 20
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 22
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1830
Comment : Wrecked at North Pier, Aberdeen. Capt. Gordon