Archaeology Notes

Event ID 854442

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT79NE 8002 7919 9786

N56 10.3833 W2 20.1

NLO: Isle of May [name: NT 65 99]

Bass Rock (name: NT 602 873).

Formerly entered as NT79NE 8602.

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = UND

Surveying Details

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28 March 1949. A wreck was reported at position 56 10 23N, 002 20 06W.

3 August 1977. No wrecks were found within an area 2.5 miles east thru north to west from 56 10 10N, 002 18 45W.

Report by HMS FOX.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as motor yawl: no cargo specified, but fishing registration number cited as LH 34, former name as J M Ross, and date of loss as 19 February 1946). Thrive: this vessel blew up off the Bass Rock after catching a mine in her nets 7 miles ESE of the [Isle of] May.

Registration: Cockenzie. Built 1914. 9grt. Length: 10m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 10.38 W2 20.10).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area designated as Maritime - East Lothian.

The classification and location of loss cited by Whittaker remain unverified.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 March 2002.