Archaeology Notes

Event ID 847314

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT68SW 8010 c. 62 82

N56 2 W2 37

Formerly entered as unlocated.

See also NT68SW 8046.

NLO: Dunbar [name: NT 678 790]

Scoughall Rocks [name: NT 618 835]

Peffer Sands [name: NT 623 825]

Ravensheugh Sands [name: NT 627 819]

North Berwick [name: NT 55 85].

Dunbar, 5th Feb. 'Yesterday during a heavy gale of wind, the CZAR, Smith, from London to Leith, and the SALLY, from Arundel to Shields, were driven on shore about four miles West of this place. The former will be totally wrecked - the latter may be got off. The master, three of the crew, and eleven passengers of the CZAR were drowned. The crew of the SALLY saved.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6611, London, Friday February 11 1831.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6762).

(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 4 February 1831). Czar: this vessel was wrecked on Scoughall Sands.

Registration: Leith. Built 1815. 192 tons burthern.

(Location of loss cited as N56 2.25 W2 36.25).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Scoughall Sands are not noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. The name presumably applies to the extesive area of sands that is depicted to the SE of Scoughall Rocks, and to which the names Peffer Sands and Ravensheugh Sands are applied.

The classification cited by Whittaker is unverified.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 May 2005.

CZAR smack, of and for Leith from London, wrecked near North Berwick, 9 crew saved, 5 lost, including the master; 13 passengers [fate unknown,not recorded in the information I was given], 4 February 1831.

Source: Newcastle Chronicle, 12 February 1831.

Information from Serena Cant (NMRC, Swindon), 19 May 2005.