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Forbeses: Fife Ness, North Sea
Dandy (19th Century)
Site Name Forbeses: Fife Ness, North Sea
Classification Dandy (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Outer Forth Estuary; Outer Tay Estuary; Firth Of Forth; Firth Of Tay; Forbeses
Canmore ID 251408
Site Number NO60NW 8049
NGR NO 639 098
NGR Description NO c. 639 098
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO60NW 8049 c. 639 098
N56 16.8 W2 35.1
NLO: Fife Ness (name: NO 639 098).
Possibly on map sheet NO61SW.
Location formerly entered as NO c. 63 09 [N56 16 W2 36].
26 April 1895, FORBESES, 16 years, of Fraserburgh. Wood trading dandy. 24 ton. 3 men. Master and owner C.W. Forbes, Fraserburgh. Dundee to Bo'ness. Ballast. Wind NE4. Fife Ness.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1894-95 (1896 [C.8247] LXXV.489).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1104).
(Classified as wooden dandy, in ballast: date of loss cited as 26 April 1895). Forbeses: this vessel stranded [at] Fife Ness. Capt. Forbes.
Registration: Fraserburgh. Built 1879. 30grt. Length: 17m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 17.00 W2 35.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 October 2003.
Loss (26 April 1895)
26 April 1895, FORBESES, 16 years, of Fraserburgh. Wood trading dandy. 24 ton. 3 men. Master and owner C.W. Forbes, Fraserburgh. Dundee to Bo'ness. Ballast. Wind NE4. Fife Ness.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1894-95 (1896 [C.8247] LXXV.489).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1104).
(Classified as wooden dandy, in ballast: date of loss cited as 26 April 1895). Forbeses: this vessel stranded [at] Fife Ness. Capt. Forbes.
Registration: Fraserburgh. Built 1879. 30grt. Length: 17m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 17.00 W2 35.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (17 October 2003)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 October 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4275
Name : FORBESES
Latitude : 561700
Longitude : 23500
Date Built : 1879
Registration : FRASERBURGH
Type : DANDY (WOOD)
Tonnage : 30
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 17
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 26
Loss Month : 4
Loss Year : 1895
Comment : Stranded Fife Ness. Capt. Forbes
Cargo : BALLAST
