Flying Star: Eyemouth, North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Flying Star: Eyemouth, North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Firth Of Forth; Outer Forth Estuary; Flying Star
Canmore ID 198284
Site Number NT96SE 8039
NGR NT 980 624
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/198284
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Maritime - Scottish Borders, The
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT96SE 8039 unlocated
NLO: Eyemouth [name: NT 945 644].
20 November 1876, FLYING STAR, 10 yrs old, of Berwick, wooden lugger, 26 tons, 7 crew, Master and Owner W. Nisbet, Eyemouth, departed Eyemouth, for fishing, in ballast, collided into by fishing lugger NEW ENTERPRISE, of Berwick, wind NNW5, about 2 miles SW of Eyemouth, Berwickshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1876 - 77 (1877 [C.1891] LXXV.181).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2784).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 20 October 1876). This vessel was in collision and sank 2 miles NE of Eyemouth. Capt. Nisbet.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 October 2001.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5617
Name : FLYING STAR
Latitude : 555130
Longitude : 20200
Date Built : 1866
Registration : BERWICK
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 26
Loss Day : 20
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1876
Comment : Collision and sunk 2 miles NE of Eyemouth (NEW ENTERPRISE). Capt. Nisbet
Cargo : BALLAST
