Onny: Craig Spurry, Inch Garvie, Firth Of Forth

NT17NW 8009 c. 136 795

N56 0 W3 23.1

NLO: Inch Garvie [NT 136 795].

17 June 1878, ONNY, 14 yrs old, of Norway, wooden schooner, 89 tons, 5 crew, Master C. Salvesen, Owner S. Aogeun, Sandfjord, Norway, departed Charlestown, Fife, for Aalborg, carrying coal, wind W1, stranded, Craig Spurry, near Inch Garvie [Inchgarvie] Island, Firth of Forth.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).

North Queensferry, 17th June, 8 a.m., Norw. schr. ONNY (?ONNI), of Sandefjord, from Charlestown to Aalborg, with coal, is ashore on Inch Garvie [Inchgarvie], with back broken. She is not insured.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,013, London, Tuesday June 18 1878.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2868).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 17 June 1878). Onny: this vessel stranded on Craig Spurry, near Inchgarvie. Capt. Salvesen.

Registration: Norwegian. Built 1864. 89 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N56 0.5 W3 23.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Craig Spurry is not noted as such on the 1998 editin of the Os 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to one of the rocks that fringe Inchgarvie island.

The location of this loss may lie within the quasi-administrative areas designated as Maritime - West Lothian or Maritime - Fife.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 October 2001.