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Zulu: Seacliff Bay, Firth Of Forth
Barquentine (19th Century)
Site Name Zulu: Seacliff Bay, Firth Of Forth
Classification Barquentine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Outer Forth Estuary; Dunbar; St Baldred's Boat; Zulu
Canmore ID 250235
Site Number NT68SW 8031
NGR NT 60 84
NGR Description NT c. 60 84
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council East Lothian
- Parish Maritime - East Lothian
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT68SW 8031 c. 60 84
N56 3 W2 39
NLO: Seacliff [name: NT 606 841]
St Baldred's Boat [name: NT 610 850]
Dunbar [name: NT 678 790].
Possibly on map sheets or NT68NW.
19 October 1898. ZULU, 26 years, of Guernsey, Lloyds + ?1. Survey 4/98, wood barquentine. 257 ton, 9 men, Master W.C. Limasurier, Owner J. Grace, Guernsey. London to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Chalk. Wind E9. Seacliff Bay, Haddingtonshire. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 718).
(Classified as wooden barquentine, with cargo of chalk: date of loss cited as 19 October 1898). This vessel stranded at Seacliff Bay.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Seacliff Bay is not noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the name may apply to the bay to the N of Seacliff and SW of St Baldred's Boat.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 September 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3294
Name : ZULU
Latitude : 560300
Longitude : 23700
Date Built : 1872
Registration : GUERNSEY
Type : BARQUENTINE (WOOD)
Tonnage : 296
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 36
Beam : 8
Draught : 4m
Loss Day : 19
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1898
Comment : Stranded Seacliff Bay. Capt. Limasurier
Cargo : CHALK
