Jane Gray: Outer Forth Estuary
Ketch (19th Century)
Site Name Jane Gray: Outer Forth Estuary
Classification Ketch (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) St Abbs Head; North Sea; Jane Gray
Canmore ID 198975
Site Number NT87SW 8008
NGR NT 84 71
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/198975
- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Maritime - Scottish Borders, The
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT87SW 8008 unlocated
NLO: St Abbs Head [name: NT 911 694].
21 January 1884, JANE GRAY, 20 yrs old, of Hull, wooden ketch, 63 tons, 4 crew, Master and Owner T. Abbott, Hull, departed Hull for Dunbar, carrying oil-seed cake, burnt, wind WSW9, total loss, 8 miles W. of St. Abb's Head, Berwickshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3500).
(Classified as wooden ketch, with cargo of oil-seed cake: date of loss cited as 21 January 1884). This vessel was destroyed by fire 8 miles W of St Abbs Head. Capt. Abbott.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area allocated to this wreck are arbitrary. The loss may have occurred on map sheet and/or within the quasi-administrative area defined as Maritime - East Lothian.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 October 2001.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13773
Name : JANE GRAY
Latitude : 555600
Longitude : 21500
Date Built : 1864
Registration : HULL
Type : KETCH (WOOD)
Tonnage : 63
Loss Day : 21
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1884
Comment : Destroyed by fire 8 miles W of St Abbs Head. Capt. Abbott
Cargo : OIL-SEED CAKE
