Flower Of Enzie: Portgordon Harbour Entrance, Moray Firth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Flower Of Enzie: Portgordon Harbour Entrance, Moray Firth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Port Gordon; 'outside The West Pier'; North Sea
Canmore ID 297903
Site Number NJ36SE 8022
NGR NJ 395 645
NGR Description NJ c. 395 645
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Moray
- Parish Maritime - Moray
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NJ36SE 8022 c. 395 643
N57 39.9 W3 0.9
NLO: Portgordon [name: NJ 395 643].
Not to be confused with NK15NW 8052.
Port Gordon [Portgordon], 8th Feb. The FLOWER OF ENZIE (schnr.), of Banff, Reid, from Sunderland to this place, with coals, when nearing this harbour to-day, during a northerly gale, struck the ground, broached to, and drove ashore outside the West pier: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,795, London, Tuesday, February 11 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11386).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Portgordon Harbour (NJ36SE 23) is centred at NJ 39550 64330.
Spey Bay (name centred NJ 37 67) forms an ill-defined embayment which extends over portions of several map sheets.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), possibly suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2008.
Loss (8 February 1868)
Port Gordon [Portgordon], 8th Feb. The FLOWER OF ENZIE (schnr.), of Banff, Reid, from Sunderland to this place, with coals, when nearing this harbour to-day, during a northerly gale, struck the ground, broached to, and drove ashore outside the West pier: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 16,795, London, Tuesday, February 11 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11386).
Note (27 February 2008)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Portgordon Harbour (NJ36SE 23) is at NJ 3955 6433.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), possibly suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 February 2008.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11855
Name : FLOWER OF THE ENZIE
Latitude : 574000
Longitude : 30030
Date Built : 1858
Registration : BANFF
Type : SCHOONER
Tonnage : 74
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 21
Beam : 6
Position : All Gone
Loss Day : 8
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1868
Comment : Stranded outside the West pier, Portgordon. Capt. Reid
Cargo : COAL