Margaret: Goat Point, Dunbar, Firth Of Forth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Margaret: Goat Point, Dunbar, Firth Of Forth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Goatness; Outer Forth Estuary; Margaret
Canmore ID 273474
Site Number NT77NW 8071
NGR NT 7275 7707
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/273474
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Maritime - East Lothian
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT77NW 8071 unlocated
NLO: Dunbar [name: NT 678 790].
Not to be confused with NT77SE 8031.
Possibly on map sheet NT77NW.
Dunbar, 25th Jan. The MARGARET (schr.), of Stornoway, Evans, from West Hartlepool to Tayport, with railway chairs, is on shore at Goatness, fills with the tide, and is likely to become a wreck: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 17,093, London, Tuesday, January 26 1869.
Dunbar, 26th Jan. About two tons of cargo have been saved from the MARGARET, Evans, from West Hartlepool to Tayport, which got ashore, yesterday, at Goatness.
Source: LL, No. 17,097, London, Saturday, January 30 1869.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11581).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of railway chairs: date of loss cited as 24 January 1869). Margaret: this vessel stranded at Goatness, expected wreck. Capt. Evans.
Registration: Berwick. Built: 1822. Rebuilt: 1856. 37 grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 59.25 W2 26.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The suggested location near Dunbar is based on the information available for NT67NE 8039 and NT67NE 8051.
Goatness or Goat Point is not noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 August 2005.
Loss (24 January 1869)
Dunbar, 25th Jan. The MARGARET (schr.), of Stornoway, Evans, from West Hartlepool to Tayport, with railway chairs, is on shore at Goatness, fills with the tide, and is likely to become a wreck: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 17,093, London, Tuesday, January 26 1869.
Dunbar, 26th Jan. About two tons of cargo have been saved from the MARGARET, Evans, from West Hartlepool to Tayport, which got ashore, yesterday, at Goatness.
Source: LL, No. 17,097, London, Saturday, January 30 1869.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11581).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of railway chairs: date of loss cited as 24 January 1869). Margaret: this vessel stranded at Goatness, expected wreck. Capt. Evans.
Registration: Berwick. Built: 1822. Rebuilt: 1856. 37 grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 59.25 W2 26.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (2 August 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The suggested location near Dunbar is based on the information available for NT67NE 8039 and 8051.
Goatness or Goat Point is not noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 August 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11949
Name : MARGARET
Latitude : 555915
Longitude : 22630
Date Built : 1822
Registration : BERWICK
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 37
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 16
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 24
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1869
Comment : Stranded at Goatness, expected wreck. Capt. Evans Rebuilt:1856
Cargo : RAILWAY CHAIRS
