Archaeology Notes

Event ID 856595

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT39SW 8033 unlocated

NLO: Kirkcaldy [name: NT 281 913].

Formerly also entered as NT29SE 8012 (unlocated).

10 December 1872, UNKNOWN, pilot boat, 10 tons (say), 1 crew, cruizing off Kirkcaldy, in ballast, collision, total loss, 1 life lost, wind ENE4, off Kirkcaldy, Firth of Forth.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2440).

(Classified as Pilot Boat: date of loss cited as 10 December 1872). Unknown: this vessel was in collision and sank off Kirkcaldy.

(Location of loss cited as N56 6.0 W3 6.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 June 2007.