Providentia: Firth Of Forth
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Providentia: Firth Of Forth
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Outer Forth Estuary; Providentia
Canmore ID 274844
Site Number NT37NE 8051
NGR NT 37 79
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/274844
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Maritime - East Lothian
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT37NE 8051 unlocated
Leith, 19th Nov. 'The PROVIDENTIA, Lund, from Hull, having sprung a leak at sea, was run on shore in the Firth of Forth, and has become a total wreck; crew saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 8021, London, Thursday November 21 1839.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7493).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 19 November 1839). Providentia: this vessel was run ashore in the Firth of Forth, and wrecked. Capt. Lund.
(Loication cited as N56 0 W3 0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are entirely arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 September 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 14417
Name : PROVIDENTIA
Latitude : 560000
Longitude : 30000
Loss Day : 19
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1839
Comment : Run ashore in the Firth of Forth and wrecked. Capt. Lund
