Archaeology Notes

Event ID 854100

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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N56 3 W2 43

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

Possibly on map sheet NT58NW.

North Berwick, 15th June. The J. C. HOWITZ (brig), of and from Rostock, is on shore here and likely to be a total wreck: crew saved by the life-boat.

Source: LL, No. 17,213, London, Wednesday, June 16 1869.

Dunbar, 16th June. The J. C. HOWITZ, Severins, from Rostock to Grangemouth, stranded yesterday at North Berwick, is a total wreck.

Source: LL, No. 17,215, London, Friday, June 18 1869.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11647).

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 January 2007.