Archaeology Notes

Event ID 836463

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT48NE 8006 c. 494 863

N56 4 W2 48.8

NLO: Eyebroughy [name: NT 494 863]

Fidra [name: NT 512 869]

North Berwick [name: NT 55 85].

Possibly on map sheet NT58NW.

18 December 1892. JANE. 52 years of Lowestoft. Wood schooner. 94 ton. 5 men. Master W.B. Fox. Owner Mrs H. Fox, Great Yarmouth. Goole to Leith. Alum and 1 passenger. Wind WNW9. Eyebroughty Rock, 3 miles W of Fidra Island, Firth of Forth.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1892-93 (1894 [C.7324] LXXVI.505).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1293).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of alum: date of loss cited as 18 December 1892). This vessel stranded on Eyebroughy Rock, 3 miles W of Fidra.

I G Whittaker 1998.