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