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Briar Rose: Beacon Muck, Muck Rocks, Buckie, Spey Bay, Moray Firth

Motor Fishing Vessel (20th Century)

Site Name Briar Rose: Beacon Muck, Muck Rocks, Buckie, Spey Bay, Moray Firth

Classification Motor Fishing Vessel (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) West Muck; Middle Muck; East Muck; North Sea; Briar Rose

Canmore ID 310977

Site Number NJ46NW 8040

NGR NJ 42 66

NGR Description NJ c. 42 66

Datum Datum not recorded

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

Archaeology Notes

NJ46NW 8014 c. 42 66

N57 41 W2 58

NLO: West Muck [name: NJ 424 665]

Middle Muck [name: NJ 427 666]

East Muck [name: NJ 435 670]

Spey Bay [name centred NJ 37 67]

Buckie [name: NJ 415 654].

(Classified as wooden M[otor] F[ishing] V[essel]: date of loss cited as 10 October 1967). Briar Rose: [this vessel] stranded [on] Beacon Muck [Rock], Buckie. Capt. Nicholson.

Registration: Berwick. Built 1840. 38 tons beam. Length: 15m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 41.05 W2 58.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Beacon Muck [Rock] cannot be identified from the available map evidence, but the Muck Rocks are a discontinous and unevenly spaced line of offshore skerries which extend from NJ 424 665 (West Muck) to NJ 435 670 (East Muck) off Buckie.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2011.

Activities

Loss (10 October 1967)

(Classified as wooden M[otor] F[ishing] V[essel]: date of loss cited as 10 October 1967). Briar Rose: [this vessel] stranded [on] Beacon Muck [Rock], Buckie. Capt. Nicholson.

Registration: Berwick. Built 1840. 38 tons beam. Length: 15m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 41.05 W2 58.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (11 May 2011)

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Beacon Muck [Rock] cannot be identified from the available map evidence, but the Muck Rocks are a discontinous and unevenly spaced line of offshore skerries which extend from NJ 424 665 (West Muck) to NJ 435 670 (East Muck) off Buckie.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 May 2011.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 2922

Name : BRIAR ROSE

Latitude : 574103

Longitude : 25800

Type : MFV (WOOD)

Loss Day : 10

Loss Month : 10

Loss Year : 1967

Comment : Stranded Beacon Muck, Buckie

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