Archaeology Notes

Event ID 849105

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT30SE 8011 c. 381 003

N56 11.5 W2 59.9

NLO: Methil [name: NT 37 99]

Leven [name: NO 385 005]

Largo Bay [name centred NO 420 011]

Innerleven [name centred NO 380 001].

Possibly on map sheet NT39NE.

Formerly entered as NT39NE 8014 (unlocated).

15 December 1870, EARL OF SEAFIELD, sloop, 30 tons, 3 crew, unknown departure or destination, carrying grain, stranded, total loss, 3 lives lost, wind W10, quarter mile from the Coast of Leven, Fife.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1870 (1871 [C.425] LXI.765).

Leith, 16th Dec. The EARL OF SEAFIELD (sloop), of Macduff, Noble, from Fraserburgh to Leith, was driven ashore during a gale, on the night of 14th Dec., on Leven sands: boats and five of the crew lost.

Source, LL, No. 17,681, London, Saturday, December 17 1870.

Leven, Kirkcaldy, 16th Dec. The EARL OF SEAFIELD, Noble, from Fraserburg to Leith, which stranded here 14th Dec., was boarded yesterday and found to [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2404).

(Classified as smack, with cargo of grain: date of loss cited as 14 December 1870). Earl of Seafield: this vessel stranded 0.25 mile[s] from Leven at Leven Creek. Capt. Noble.

Registration: Macduff. Built 1855. 33 tons burthern. Length: 14m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 12.00 W2 59.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Leven Creek is not noted as such on the 1996 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the River Leven enters Largo Bay at NO 381 003.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 March 2004.