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Unknown: North Pier, Aberdeen Harbour, North Sea

Lighter (19th Century)

Site Name Unknown: North Pier, Aberdeen Harbour, North Sea

Classification Lighter (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen Harbour, North Pier; 'near The Pier'; Aberdeen Harbour Entrance; Aberdeen Beach; Aberdeen Bay; Unknown 1802

Canmore ID 312267

Site Number NJ90NE 8349

NGR NJ 963 060

NGR Description NJ c. 963 060

Datum Datum not recorded

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  • Council Aberdeen, City Of
  • Parish Maritime - Aberdeen City Of
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

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Loss (20 March 1802)

(Classified as lighter, with cargo of stone: date of loss cited as 20 March 1802). Unknown: [this vessel] sank near the [North] pier, Aberdeen. All gone?

(Location of loss cited as N57 8.75 W2 3.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Named Location (Nlo) (11 August 2011)

NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].

Note (11 August 2011)

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unclear whether this vessel stranded on the S side of the pier (within the harbour entrance) or on the N side (off the S end of Aberdeen Beach). In the former eventuality, her remains were presumably removed without delay from this constrained location.

Aberdeen Harbour (NJ90NE 7.00) is centred at NJ 95 05, and the North Pier (NJ90NE 7.02) extends from NJ 9590 0570 to NJ 9639 0609. The present entrance may be considered to lie at NJ c. 961 057, but this location reflects development towards the East through the construction of successive piers and breakwaters.

Aberdeen Beach is not noted as such on the current edition of the OS (GIS) MasterMap, but the name evidently applies to the southern part of the lengthy and gently-curving sand-dune coast that stretches Northwards from Aberdeen, from NJ 95 06 to NK 02 26.

Aberdeen Bay is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name presumably applies to the ill-defined and sand-fringed indentation that forms a shallow arc extending North from the mouth of the River Dee (at NJ 96 05).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 August 2011.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 18086

Name : UNKNOWN 1802

Latitude : 570845

Longitude : 20300

Type : LIGHTER

Loss Day : 20

Loss Month : 3

Loss Year : 1802

Comment : Sank near the pier, Aberdeen. AG?

Cargo : STONE

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