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MHG37801 - PRESS ON: MORAY FIRTH

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ND42SW 8001 unlocated

NLO: Buckie [name: NJ 415 654]
Dunbeath [name: ND 161 296].

Formerly entered as NJ37NE 8001 (unlocated), within Maritime - Aberdeenshire.

28 February 1869, PRESS ON, 1 year, lugger, 15 ton, 8 men, from Dunbeath, to Buckie, ballast, foundered, total loss, 8 dead, wind NW force 10, about half way across Moray Firth.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 635).

(Classified as lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 28 February 1869). Press On: this vessel foundered mid-way between Buckie and Dunbeath.
Registration: Buckie. Built 1868. 15nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N58 10.00 W3 0.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the quasi-administrative areas that are designated Maritime - Aberdeenshire or Maritime - Moray.
The date cited is apparently that of report, rather than loss.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 February 2002.

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Grid reference	Centred ND 3601 2948 (10051m by 19051m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND32NE

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