Archaeology Notes

Event ID 770490

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT68SW 8004 c. 618 835

N56 2.6 W2 36.8

Formerly entered as NT68SW 8649 at cited location NT6190 8391 (N56 2.8 W2 36.7).

NLO: Scoughall Rocks [NT 618 835].

27 November 1896, PODEROSA, 21 years, of Sunderland. Lloyds 90A1. Survey 8/96. Iron steamship. 732 ton, 17 men. Master T. Greig. Owner Russell, Miller, Huskie & Co., Leith. Grimsby to Grangemouth. Ballast 1 passenger. Wind NE4. Scoughall Rocks, Haddingtonshire.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1896-97 (1898 [C.8917] LXXXVIII.401).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 907).

(Classified as iron steamship, in ballast: date of loss cited as 27 November 1896). This vessel stranded near Scoughall, and was totally wrecked.

I G Whittaker 1998.