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Delphin: Outer Tay Estuary, North Sea
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Delphin: Outer Tay Estuary, North Sea
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Near The Entrance To The River Tay'; River Tay Entrance; Firth Of Tay; Delphin
Canmore ID 198464
Site Number NO52NW 8111
NGR NO 518 294
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/198464
- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO42NE 8019 unlocated
8 April 1879, DELPHIN, 79 yrs old, of Norway, wooden brig, 136 tons, 6 crew, Master P. Pedersen, Owner H. Dahl, Tonsberg, Norway, departed Frederickstadt for Grangemouth, carrying wood, 2 lives lost (Master and Mate), wind E7, stranded, total loss, near the entrance to the R. Tay, Forfarshire, exact spot unknown.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1878 - 79 (1880 [C.2519] LXVI.47).
Dundee, April 9, 11.5 a.m., DELPHIN brig, of Tonsberg, from Frederikstadt for Grangemouth (battens and staves), went ashore last night at entrance to Tay, and immediately broke up: four of crew landed on deckhouse at Monifieth: [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2916).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of wood: date of loss cited as 8 April 1879). This vessel stranded near the entrance to the River Tay. Capt. Pedersen.
I G Whitaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this wreck is arbitrary. It may lie on map sheet or and in the quasi-administrative area of Maritime - Dundee or Maritime - Fife.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 October 2001.
Loss (8 April 1879)
8 April 1879, DELPHIN, 79 yrs old, of Norway, wooden brig, 136 tons, 6 crew, Master P. Pedersen, Owner H. Dahl, Tonsberg, Norway, departed Frederickstadt for Grangemouth, carrying wood, 2 lives lost (Master and Mate), wind E7, stranded, total loss, near the entrance to the R. Tay, Forfarshire, exact spot unknown.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1878 - 79 (1880 [C.2519] LXVI.47).
Dundee, April 9, 11.5 a.m., DELPHIN brig, of Tonsberg, from Frederikstadt for Grangemouth (battens and staves), went ashore last night at entrance to Tay, and immediately broke up: four of crew landed on deckhouse at Monifieth: [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2916).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of wood: date of loss cited as 8 April 1879). Delphin: [this vessel] stranded near [the] entrance to [the] River Tay. Capt. Pedersen.
Registration: Norwegian. Built 1800. 136 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N56 27.50 W2 47.00).
I G Whitaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5783
Name : DELPHIN
Latitude : 562730
Longitude : 24700
Date Built : 1800
Registration : NORWEGIAN
Type : BRIG (WOOD)
Tonnage : 136
Loss Day : 8
Loss Month : 4
Loss Year : 1879
Comment : Stranded near entr to River Tay. Capt. Pedersen
Cargo : WOOD
Note (19 January 2012)
(Re-entered as NO52NW 8111 (unlocated)). The map sheet assigned to this wreck is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. This vessel evidently stranded among the extensive sandbanks of the outer Tay estuary.
The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area that is designated Maritime - Fife.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 January 2012.
