Humility: Montrose, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Humility: Montrose, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On The Rocks South Of The Harbour'; ; Montrose Harbour Entrance; River South Esk; Scurdie Ness; Ferryden; 'near Montrose'; Humility
Canmore ID 284549
Site Number NO75NW 8148
NGR NO 725 568
NGR Description NO c. 725 568
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Angus
- Parish Maritime - Angus
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO75NW 8148 c. 725 568
N56 42.1 W2 26.9
NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]
Ferryden [name: NO 718 567]
Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].
Montrose, 30th Dec. The HUMILITY (schr.), Bain, of and for Inverness, which left this port last night, drove on the rocks South of the harbour, and has become a wreck: stores, materials and crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,272, London, Saturday December 31 1859.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9779).
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 29 December 1859). Humility: this vessel was lost near Montrose.
Registration: Inverness.Built 1843. 78 tons burthern. Length: 21m. Beam: 5m.
(location of loss cited as N56 43.00 W2 25.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
(Location entered as NO c. 725 568 [N56 42.1 W2 26.9]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the location ('on the rocks South of the [Montrose] harbour') that is cited in the primary account of the loss.
Montrose Harbour or the Port of Montrose (NO75NW 44.00) occupies an ill-defined area around NO 7123 5121. It does not have clearly-defined entrance, but is approached (from the E) between the extensive estuarine sandbanks of the River South Esk, which extend as far E as Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567]. The vessel evidently stranded within the rocky area opposite (to the S of) these sandbanks.
The 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map indicates a continuous rocky shore along the S side of the Esk between Ferryden [name: NO 718 568] and Scurdie Ness.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 November 2006.
Loss (29 December 1859)
Montrose, 30th Dec. The HUMILITY (schr.), Bain, of and for Inverness, which left this port last night, drove on the rocks South of the harbour, and has become a wreck: stores, materials and crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,272, London, Saturday December 31 1859.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9779).
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 29 December 1859). Humility: this vessel was lost near Montrose.
Registration: Inverness.Built 1843. 78 tons burthern. Length: 21m. Beam: 5m.
(location of loss cited as N56 43.00 W2 25.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (17 November 2006)
NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]
Ferryden [name: NO 718 567]
Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].
Note (17 November 2006)
(Location entered as NO c. 725 568 [N56 42.1 W2 26.9]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the location ('on the rocks South of the [Montrose] harbour') that is cited in the primary account of the loss.
Montrose Harbour or the Port of Montrose (NO75NW 44.00) occupies an ill-defined area around NO 7123 5121. It does not have clearly-defined entrance, but is approached (from the E) between the extensive estuarine sandbanks of the River South Esk, which extend as far E as Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567]. The vessel evidently stranded within the rocky area opposite (to the S of) these sandbanks.
The 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map indicates a continuous rocky shore along the S side of the Esk between Ferryden [name: NO 718 568] and Scurdie Ness.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 November 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 15630
Name : HUMILITY
Latitude : 564300
Longitude : 22500
Date Built : 1843
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SCHOONER
Tonnage : 78
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 21
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 29
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1859
Comment : Lost near Montrose.