Archaeology Notes

Event ID 817207

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/817207

NT96SE 8039 unlocated

NLO: Eyemouth [name: NT 945 644].

20 November 1876, FLYING STAR, 10 yrs old, of Berwick, wooden lugger, 26 tons, 7 crew, Master and Owner W. Nisbet, Eyemouth, departed Eyemouth, for fishing, in ballast, collided into by fishing lugger NEW ENTERPRISE, of Berwick, wind NNW5, about 2 miles SW of Eyemouth, Berwickshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2784).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 20 October 1876). This vessel was in collision and sank 2 miles NE of Eyemouth. Capt. Nisbet.

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 October 2001.