Archaeology Notes

Event ID 840297

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO51NE 8001 c. 57 18

NLO: St Andrews [name: NO 515 166]

St Andrews Bay [name centred NO 52 18].

Possibly on map sheet NO51NW.

24 August 1871, OSPRAY, of North Shields, 5 yrs old, SS, 59 tons, 7 crew, departed North Shields for Dundee, in ballast, foundered, total loss, 7 lives lost, wind WSW12, 3 miles E of St Andrews.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2416).

(Classified as steam tug, in ballast: date of loss cited as 24 August 1871). Ospray (Osprey?): this vessel foundered 3 miles E of St Andrews, [and] 2 miles off Broadhills. Capt. Edwards.

Registration: British. 59 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N56 21.50 W2 40.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.

The location of Broadhills cannot be established from the available map and gazetteer references. This place-name may be equated with the village of Boarhills [name: NO 565 142], which is situated inland from the NE coast of Fife and the S coast of St Andrews Bay.

The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of map sheet NO51NW.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 March 2004.