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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 861172
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/861172
NT68SW 8031 c. 60 84
N56 3 W2 39
NLO: Seacliff [name: NT 606 841]
St Baldred's Boat [name: NT 610 850]
Dunbar [name: NT 678 790].
Possibly on map sheets or NT68NW.
19 October 1898. ZULU, 26 years, of Guernsey, Lloyds + ?1. Survey 4/98, wood barquentine. 257 ton, 9 men, Master W.C. Limasurier, Owner J. Grace, Guernsey. London to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Chalk. Wind E9. Seacliff Bay, Haddingtonshire. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 718).
(Classified as wooden barquentine, with cargo of chalk: date of loss cited as 19 October 1898). This vessel stranded at Seacliff Bay.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Seacliff Bay is not noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name may apply to the bay to the N of Seacliff and SW of St Baldred's Boat.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 September 2003.
