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Lion: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea

Sloop (18th Century)

Site Name Lion: Aberdeen Harbour Entrance, North Sea

Classification Sloop (18th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'At The Back Of The South Pier, Aberdeen [harbour]'; Lion

Canmore ID 312389

Site Number NJ90NE 8363

NGR NJ 961 057

NGR Description NJ c. 961 057

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 (1 December 1796 - 31 December 1796)

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as December 1796). Lion: [this vessel was] lost [stranded] at the back of the South pier, Aberdeen [harbour]. Capt. Brownie.

(Location of loss cited as N57 8.60 W2 2.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Named Location (Nlo) (17 August 2011)

NLO: Aberdeen [name: NJ 95 05].

Note (17 August 2011)

(Location entered as NJ c. 961 057 [N57 8.5 W2 4]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The location of the 'South Pier' remains unclear but it presumably stood within Aberdeen harbour entrance. Both the Old South Breakwater (NJ90NE 7.04) and the South Breakwater (NJ90NE 7.05) apparently postdate the loss of this vessel.

Aberdeen Harbour (NJ90NE 7.00) is centred at NJ 95 05. The present entrance may be considered to extend from NJ c. 959 056 to NJ 964 059, but this location reflects development towards the East through the construction of successive piers and breakwaters.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 August 2011.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 15310

Name : LION

Latitude : 570836

Longitude : 20200

Type : SLOOP

Loss Month : 12

Loss Year : 1796

Comment : Lost at the back of the South Pier, Aberdeen. Capt. Brownie

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