Archaeology Notes

Event ID 820774

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NU06NW 8020 unlocated

NLO: St Abbs Head [name: NT 911 694].

14 October 1881, SUNSHINE, 1 yr old, not registered, wooden lugger, 20 tons, 7 crew, Master and Owner G. Grant, Eyemouth, departed Eyemouth for fishing, in ballast, 7 lives lost, wind NNE12, foundered, total loss, off St Abb's Head, Berwick.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3164).

(Classified as wooden lugger: no cargo specified, but registration number and date of loss cited as BK 955 and 14 October 1881). This vessel was lost off St Abbs Head. Capt. Grant.

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet allocated to this vessel is essentially arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 October 2001.