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Liverpool Packet: Peterhead, South Harbour Entrance, North Sea

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Liverpool Packet: Peterhead, South Harbour Entrance, North Sea

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Peterhead Bay; Liverpool Packet

Canmore ID 275719

Site Number NK14NW 8173

NGR NK 1363 4580

NGR Description NK c. 1363 4580

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

NK14NW 8173 c. 1363 4580

N57 30.15 W1 46.35

NLO: Peterhead [name: NK 135 465]

Peterhead Bay [name centred NJ 131 454].

Not to be confused with NJ90NE 8277.

Possibly on map sheet NK14SW.

Peterhead, 19th Nov. 'The LIVERPOOL PACKET, of and from Aberdeen, for Glasgow, in taking the South Harbour this evening during a gale, went on shore on the rocks near the entrance, and is expected to become a wreck.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9889, London, Saturday November 22 1845.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8034).

(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 19 November 1845). Liverpool Packet: this vessel stranded in the entrance to Peterhead [harbour], and was expected to become a wreck.

Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1818. 94 tons burthern.

(Location of loss cited as N57 30.0 W1 48.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The current edition of the OS (GIS) AIB notes the South Harbour at [Name Centred] NK 1370 4594. It remains uncertain whether or not the vessel was lost near or within this restricted area.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 December 2007.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 14464

Name : LIVERPOOL PACKET

Latitude : 573000

Longitude : 14800

Date Built : 1818

Registration : ABERDEEN

Type : SCHOONER

Tonnage : 94

Tonnage Code : B

Loss Day : 19

Loss Month : 11

Loss Year : 1845

Comment : Stranded at the entrance to Peterhead and expected wreck.

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