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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 820456
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/820456
NT77NW 8006 c. 738 757
N55 58.4 W2 25.2
NLO: Skateraw Harbour [name: NT 737 756].
For alternative location at Torness Point (NT c. 751 751), see NT77NE 8001.
See also NT67NE 8009 (Lovely Ann) and NT77NW 8009 (Pallas).
(Classified as 5th rate 36-gun [frigate]: former name cited as La Nymphe, and date of loss as 18 December 1810). HMS Nymphe: this vessel stranded 4.5 miles from Dunbar, at Devil's Ark near Skethard on Tor Ness [Torness].
Registration: London. 937 tons burthen. Length: 42m. Beam: 11m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 57.5 W2 23.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Neither Devil's Ark nor Skethard is noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 February 2005.
