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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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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

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.

Activities

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

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