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Enchantress: Buchan Ness, North Sea

Ketch (20th Century)

Site Name Enchantress: Buchan Ness, North Sea

Classification Ketch (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Buchanness; Boddam; Enchantress

Canmore ID 292373

Site Number NK14SW 8068

NGR NK 137 422

NGR Description NK c. 137 422

Datum Datum not recorded

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  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Maritime - Aberdeenshire
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NK14SW 8068 c. 137 422

N57 28.2 W1 46.3

NLO: Buchan Ness [name: NK 137 422]

Boddam [name: NK 137 424].

(Classified as wooden ketch, in ballast: date of loss cited as 3 November 1919). Enchantress: this vessel was wrecked at Buchanness [Buchan Ness] (Boddam?).

Registration: Kirkwall. Built 1878. 79grt. Length: 23m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 28.25 W1 46.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 January 2008.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 10437

Name : ENCHANTRESS

Latitude : 572815

Longitude : 14600

Date Built : 1878

Registration : KIRKWALL

Type : KETCH (WOOD)

Tonnage : 79

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 23

Beam : 6

Loss Day : 3

Loss Month : 11

Loss Year : 1919

Comment : Wrecked at Buchanness (Boddam?)

Cargo : BALLAST

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