Archaeology Notes
Event ID 836327
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NT17NW 8012 c. 136 795
N56 0 W3 23.1
NLO: Inch Garvie [NT 136 795].
2nd November 1884, FREMAD, 23 yrs old, registered Norway, wooden schooner, 48 tons, 4 crew. Master and Owner S. E. Salvesen, Grimstad, Norway. Departed Borrowstoneness [Bo'ness] for Grimstad, carrying coal. Wind calm, stranded Inchgarvie, Firth of Forth.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).
FREMAD. North Queensferry, Nov. 7, 5 15 p.m.. The Norwegian schooner FREMAD, stranded on Inchgarvie Island, Firth of Forth, on the 2d inst.. Cargo (coal) saved. Vessel has become a total wreck.
Source: Maritime Intelligence, Shipping & Mercantile Gazette and LL, No. 14,734, London, Saturday November 8 1884.
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1949).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 2 November 1884). This vessel stranded on Inchgarvie.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location of this loss may lie within the quasi-administrative areas designated as Maritime - West Lothian or Maritime - Fife.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 October 2001.