Archaeology Notes

Event ID 832783

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT17NW 8030 c. 137 795

N56 0 W3 23.0

NLO: Inch Garvie [name: NT 137 795]

Forth Bridge [name: NT 135 795].

Inverkeithing, 31st May. The ALMUTH CATHARINA (schooner), of Boekzetelerfehn, Reuer, from Bo'ness to Leer, with pig iron and bricks, drifted on to the Inch Garvie [Inchgarvie] rocks 27th May, and is much broken and full of water: stores and part of rigging saved and cargo being taken out: crew saved.

Source: LL, No. 15,958, London, Saturday, June 3 1865.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10820).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of pig iron and bricks: date of loss cited as 27 May 1865). Almuth Catharina: this vessel was wrecked on Inchgarvie. Capt. Reur.

Registration: Boekzetelerfehn?

(Location of loss cited as N56 0.1 W3 23.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The incident may have occurred within the quasi-administrative areas designated as Maritime - West Lothian or Maritime - Fife.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 August 2005.