Restless: North Carr Rock, Carr Brigs, Fife Ness, North Sea

Ketch (19th Century)

Site Name Restless: North Carr Rock, Carr Brigs, Fife Ness, North Sea

Alternative Name(s) 'Near North Carr Beacon'; Carr Briggs; Outer Forth Estuary; Outer Tay Estuary; Firth Of Forth; Firth Of Tay; Restless

Canmore ID 199746

Site Number NO61SW 8039

NGR NO 647 115

NGR Description NO c. 647 115

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

Council Fife
Parish Maritime - Fife
Former Region Fife
Former District Maritime
Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NO61SW 8039 c. 647 115

N56 17.7 W2 34.2

NLO: Carr Brigs [name: NO 645 113]

Fife Ness [name: NO 638 098]

North Carr Beacon [name: NO 647 115].

23 September 1897 RESTLESS, 9 years, of Goole, Lloyds A1 for 9 years, survey 6/94. Wood ketch, 74 ton, 4 men. Master W.H. Aspinall. Owner R. Hickman, Goole. Perth to Goole. Stone. Wind W by S9. Near N. Carr Beacon, Fife.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 796).

(Classified as wooden ketch, with cargo of stone: date of loss cited as 23 September 1987 [sic: 1897]). Restless: this vessel stranded near North Carr Beacon.

74 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N56 17.75 W2 34.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Carr (or North Carr) Rock is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but may be tentatively equated with Carr Brigs (name: NO 645 113). North Carr Beacon (NO61SW 25) is at NO 6471 1153.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 August 2003.

Activities

Loss (23 September 1897)

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 796).

(Classified as wooden ketch, with cargo of stone: date of loss cited as 23 September 1987 [sic: 1897]). Restless: this vessel stranded near North Carr Beacon.

74 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N56 17.75 W2 34.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (7 August 2003)

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Carr (or North Carr) Rock is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but may be tentatively equated with Carr Brigs (name: NO 645 113). North Carr Beacon (NO61SW 25) is at NO 6471 1153.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 August 2003.

Reference (2011)

Project Adair - Whittaker data upload

Whittaker ID : 4122

Name : RESTLESS

Latitude : 561745

Longitude : 23400

Type : KETCH (WOOD)

Tonnage : 74

Loss Day : 23

Loss Month : 9

Loss Year : 1987