Harmony: Eyemouth Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Harmony: Eyemouth Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bk 992; Eyemouth Harbour, Breakwater; Firth Of Forth; Outer Forth Estuary; Harmony (Bk 992)
Canmore ID 198852
Site Number NT96SW 8036
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 8036 c. 946 646
N55 52.5 W2 5.2
NLO: Eyemouth [name: NT 945 644].
Formerly entered as NT96NW 8040 (unlocated).
14 October 1881, HARMONY, 2 yrs old, not registered, wooden lugger, 20 tons, 6 crew, Master and Owner W. Angus, Eyemouth, departed Eyemouth for fishing, in ballast, 6 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. 3151).
(Classified as wooden lugger: no cargo specified but registration number cited as BK 992 and date of loss as 14 October 1881). This vessel stranded on rocks behind Eyemouth breakwater. Capt. Angus.
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6874
Name : HARMONY (BK 992)
Latitude : 555230
Longitude : 20500
Date Built : 1879
Registration : BERWICK
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 20
Length : 13
Loss Day : 14
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1881
Comment : Stranded on rocks behind Eyemouth breakwater. Capt. Angus
