Archaeology Notes

Event ID 820775

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NU06NW 8017 unlocated

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

14 October 1881, FLORIDA, 4 yrs old, not registered, wooden lugger, 26 tons, 7 crew, Master and Owner W. Crombie, 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. 3146).

(Classified as wooden lugger: registration number and date of loss cited as BK 119 and 14 October 1881 respectively). This vessel was lost off St Abbs Head. Capt. Crombie.

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet allocated to this vessel is arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 October 2001.