Sunshine: St Abbs Head, North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Sunshine: St Abbs Head, North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bk 955; Firth Of Forth; Outer Forth Estuary; Sunshine (Bk 955)
Canmore ID 198792
Site Number NU06NW 8020
NGR NU 00 69
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/198792
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Maritime - Scottish Borders, The
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NU06NW 8020 unlocated
NLO: St Abbs Head [name: NT 911 694].
14 October 1881, SUNSHINE, 1 yr old, not registered, wooden lugger, 20 tons, 7 crew, Master and Owner G. Grant, Eyemouth, departed Eyemouth for fishing, in ballast, 7 lives lost, wind NNE12, foundered, total loss, off St Abb's Head, Berwick.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3164).
(Classified as wooden lugger: no cargo specified, but registration number and date of loss cited as BK 955 and 14 October 1881). This vessel was lost off St Abbs Head. Capt. Grant.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet allocated to this vessel is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 October 2001.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6662
Name : SUNSHINE (BK 955)
Latitude : 555500
Longitude : 20000
Date Built : 1880
Registration : BERWICK
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 20
Length : 13
Loss Day : 14
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1881
Comment : Lost off St Abbs Head. Capt. Grant
