Archaeology Notes

Event ID 840667

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT58NE 8033 c. 55 85

N56 3 W2 43

NLO: North Berwick [name: NT 55 85].

Possibly on map sheet NT58NW.

North Berwick, 7th June, the DUNGLASS (boat), Sample, of and for Berwick-on-Tweed, from this place, with pig iron, sunk about 100 yards from the shore, this morning: crew saved.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,452, London, Wednesday June 11 [1873].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3964).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as pig oron and date of loss as 7June 1873). This vessel foundered 100 yards off North Berwick.

I G Whittaker 1998.