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
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.
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