Archaeology Notes

Event ID 825343

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT69NE 8025 c. 663 988

N 56 10.8 W2 32.7

NLO: Isle of May [name: NT 65 99]

South Ness [name: NT 663 988].

About 4.00 o'clock on Tuesday morning, the Cellardyke boat KY 208, GEORGINA was completely wrecked on the south side of the Isle of May. While the crew were hauling their nets, the heavy swell and strong tide had drifted them down near the rocks on the South Ness [name: NT 662 988], but before they could get away, the boat struck the rocks. Their boat immediately filled with water, and the crew jumped on to the rocks without having had time to save anything. The boat sank in deep water. When the tide receeded, the men scrambled from the rocks to the main part of the island, from where they were taken off by the St. Monance boat Anchor of Hope.

Source: East Fife Record, 18 January 1889.

15 January 1889. GEORGINA. 5 years. Not reg. Wood lugger. 20 ton. 7 men. Master and owner P. Anderson, Cellardyke. Anstruther to fishing. Ballast. Wind SW5. May Island.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1621).

(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration cited as KY 208, and date of loss as 15 January 1889). Georgina: this vessel stranded [on the] SW part of South Ness, May Island. Capt. Anderson.

Registration: Cellardyke. Built 1884. 23 tons register. Length: 15m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 10.83 W2 33.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 August 2001.