Radiant: Eyemouth Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Radiant: Eyemouth Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bk 880; Eyemouth Harbour; Eyemouth Pierhead; Firth Of Forth; Outer Forth Estuary; Radiant (Bk 880)
Canmore ID 198848
Site Number NT96SW 8038
NGR NT 946 646
NGR Description NT c. 946 646
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Maritime - Scottish Borders, The
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT96SW 8038 c. 946 646
N55 52.5 W2 5.2
NLO: Eyemouth [name: NT 945 644].
Formerly entered as NT96NW 8037 (unlocated).
14 October 1881, RADIANT, 5 yrs old, not registered, wooden lugger, 20 tons, 7 crew, Master and Owner J. Windram, Eyemouth, departed Eyemouth for fishing, in ballast, 7 lives lost, wind NE10, foundered, total loss, off Eyemouth, Berwickshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3161).
(Classified as wooden lugger: no cargo specified but registration number and date of loss cited as BK 880 and 14 October 1881 respectively). This vessel was overwhelmed about 200 ft from Eyemouth pierhead. Capt. Windram.
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6875
Name : RADIANT (BK 880)
Latitude : 555240
Longitude : 20500
Date Built : 1876
Registration : BERWICK
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 20
Length : 14
Loss Day : 14
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1881
Comment : Overwhelmed approx 200 ft from Eyemouth pierhead. Capt. Windram
