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Gleaner: Montrose Harbour Approach, North Sea

Sloop (19th Century)

Site Name Gleaner: Montrose Harbour Approach, North Sea

Classification Sloop (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Scurdie Ness; River South Esk; Gleaner

Canmore ID 285531

Site Number NO75NW 8151

NGR NO 725 568

NGR Description NO c. 725 568

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Angus
  • Parish Maritime - Angus
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NO75NW 8151 c. 725 568

N56 42.1 W2 27.0

NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]

Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].

Location formerly entered as NO c. 72 56 [N56 42 W2 27] and as NO c. 725 569 [N56 42.2 W2 27].

Montrose, 6th June. The GLEANER (sloop), Harrison, of and from Bo'ness, with coal, got ashore on the rocks this morning while working into this harbour: she lies full of water, and may be considered a wreck: her stores may be saved.

Source: LL, No. 16,895, London, Monday, June 8 1868.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11458).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 6 June 1868). Gleaner: this vessel was wrecked at Montrose Harbour. Capt. Harrison.

Registration: Bo'ness. 39grt.

(Location of loss cited as N56 42.17 W2 28.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Location re-entered as NO c. 725 568 [N56 42.1 W2 27.0]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from that ('on the rocks... while working into [Montrose] harbour') that is cited in the primary account.

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), 16 November 2011.

Activities

Loss (6 June 1868)

Montrose, 6th June. The GLEANER (sloop), Harrison, of and from Bo'ness, with coal, got ashore on the rocks this morning while working into this harbour: she lies full of water, and may be considered a wreck: her stores may be saved.

Source: LL, No. 16,895, London, Monday, June 8 1868.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11458).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 6 June 1868). Gleaner: this vessel was wrecked at Montrose Harbour. Capt. Harrison.

Registration: Bo'ness. 39grt.

(Location of loss cited as N56 42.17 W2 28.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (16 November 2011)

(Location re-entered as NO c. 725 568 [N56 42.1 W2 27.0]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from that ('on the rocks... while working into [Montrose] harbour') that is cited in the primary account.

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), 16 November 2011.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 11892

Name : GLEANER

Latitude : 564210

Longitude : 22800

Registration : BO'NESS

Type : SLOOP

Tonnage : 39

Tonnage Code : G

Loss Day : 6

Loss Month : 6

Loss Year : 1868

Comment : Wrecked at Montrose Harbour. Capt. Harrison

Cargo : COAL

Named Location (Nlo) (1 February 2012)

NLO: Montrose [name: NO 720 572]

Scurdie Ness [name: NO 735 567].

Location formerly entered as NO c. 72 56 [N56 42 W2 27] and as NO c. 725 569 [N56 42.2 W2 27].

Not to be confused with NO52NW 8054 or NO 72NE 8035.

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