Accessibility

Font Size

100% 150% 200%

Background Colour

Default Contrast
Close Reset

Albert: Caroline Park, Granton, Firth Of Forth

Steamship (19th Century)

Site Name Albert: Caroline Park, Granton, Firth Of Forth

Classification Steamship (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) '1 Mile W Of Granton'; Granton Harbour; Granton Pier; Leith; Outer Forth Estuary; Edinburgh; Albert

Canmore ID 247396

Site Number NT27NW 8019

NGR NT 22 77

NGR Description NT c. 22 77

Datum Datum not recorded

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/247396

Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
Canmore Disclaimer. © Copyright and database right 2024.

Toggle Aerial | View on large map

Administrative Areas

  • Council Edinburgh, City Of
  • Parish Maritime - Edinburgh, City Of
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NT27NW 8019 c. 22 77

N55 59 W3 15

NLO: Caroline Park [name: NT 228 722]

Granton Harbour [name: NT 237 777]

Port of Leith [name: NT 265 775].

Damaged 22 May 1850. ALBERT STR? Stirling to Leith, Leith, Struck on ledge of rocks to west of Granton pier. Lloyds List 25 May 1850

Source: PP British Sessional Papers. Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1850 and 1851 (1852 (XLIX.503))

Leith, 24th May. The ALBERT (s), from Stirling to Leith, struck on a ledge of rocks to the Westward of Granton Pier, during the fog on the 22nd May, and remains.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,287, London, Saturday May 25 1850.

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 151).

(Classified as iron steamship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 22 May 1850). Albert: this vessel stranded on a reef off Caroline Park, 1 mile W of Granton. Probably all gone.

(Location of loss cited as N55 59.0 W3 14.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Activities

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 12596

Name : ALBERT

Latitude : 555900

Longitude : 31430

Type : SS (IRON)

Loss Day : 22

Loss Month : 5

Loss Year : 1850

Comment : Stranded on a reef off Caroline Park, 1 mile west of Granton. Probably AG.

References

MyCanmore Image Contributions


Contribute an Image

MyCanmore Text Contributions