It resulted in changes to bring safety in a new lighthouse for the headland, and a street in Torry (above the wreck scene at Greyhope Bay) was named Oscar Road.
[1] The Oscar was a whaling ship based in Aberdeen, Scotland, one of many undertaking the perilous and long journeys to Antarctica to participate in this highly dangerous but lucrative industry.
[1][4] Cadenhead's poem is imagined in the words of one of the survivors, remembering the horrible event and mourning the losses: Twas a sad scene this lone churchyard beside the moaning billows After the storm, the cast-ashores among the graves were laid, Their sailor garbs their winding sheets, the wet green graves their pillows, That lovers and relations might claim their hapless dead.
[10] McGonnagall's last verse, whilst awkwardly put, refers readers to the risks all seamen had to bear: And also think of the mariners while you lie down to sleep, And pray to God to protect them while on the briny deep, For their hardships are many, and hard to endure, There's only a plank between them and a watery grave, which makes their lives unsure.
One linesman (who ensured the safety of men aboard when the whale-lines were in use,[11]) John Henderson, aged 21, was buried in Newburgh Churchyard with an epitaph from his son, and a stone was erected there to Captain Innes by his wife Ann Mitchell, although the exact location of his grave is unknown; others with unknown resting places are George and Thomas Buchan, James Catto, and Thomas Greig.
[3] Argument that the crew had returned inebriated and so were ineffective to manage the ship has also been made[12] and is discussed in school worksheets[13] where this is stated as the cause of the disaster, referring to another poem published in the Aberdeen Journal on 7 April 1813.
[16] Pressure from Aberdeen continued to no avail until the Lord Provost Hadden took a petition in person to the Commissioners on 9 January 1930,[16] which resulted in establishing a sub-committee to take the project forwards, surveying the site from sea to choose the most visible location.