Poderosa: Scoughall Rocks, Scoughall, Firth Of Forth
Steamship (19th Century)
Site Name Poderosa: Scoughall Rocks, Scoughall, Firth Of Forth
Classification Steamship (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Outer Forth Estuary; Seacliff; Poderosa
Canmore ID 120021
Site Number NT68SW 8004
NGR NT 618 835
NGR Description NT c. 618 835
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council East Lothian
- Parish Maritime - East Lothian
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT68SW 8004 c. 618 835
N56 2.6 W2 36.8
Formerly entered as NT68SW 8649 at cited location NT6190 8391 (N56 2.8 W2 36.7).
NLO: Scoughall Rocks [NT 618 835].
27 November 1896, PODEROSA, 21 years, of Sunderland. Lloyds 90A1. Survey 8/96. Iron steamship. 732 ton, 17 men. Master T. Greig. Owner Russell, Miller, Huskie & Co., Leith. Grimsby to Grangemouth. Ballast 1 passenger. Wind NE4. Scoughall Rocks, Haddingtonshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1896-97 (1898 [C.8917] LXXXVIII.401).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 907).
(Classified as iron steamship, in ballast: date of loss cited as 27 November 1896). This vessel stranded near Scoughall, and was totally wrecked.
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 1517
Name : PODEROSA
Latitude : 560230
Longitude : 23500
Date Built : 1875
Registration : SUNDERLAND
Type : SS (IRON)
Tonnage : 1183
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 76
Beam : 10
Draught : 6m
Loss Day : 27
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1896
Comment : Stranded near Scoughall and totally wrecked. Capt. Greig
Cargo : BALLAST
