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Comet: Leith Docks, Firth Of Forth
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Comet: Leith Docks, Firth Of Forth
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Edinburgh; Outer Forth Estuary; Leith Harbour; Comet
Canmore ID 253897
Site Number NT27NE 8043
NGR NT 27 76
NGR Description NT c. 27 76
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/253897
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Maritime - Edinburgh, City Of
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT27NE 8043 c. 27 76
N55 58 W3 10
NLO: Port of Leith [name: NT 265 775].
16th November 1884, COMET, age unknown, not registered, wooden fishing sloop, 12 tons, 2 crew. Master and Owner J. Dinse, Leith. Sailed from a schooner stranded in the Firth of Forth, to Leith, carrying coal. Wind calm. Place of casualty, Leith Harbour.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2004).
(Classified as wooden sloop, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 16 November 1884). Comet: this vessel was wrecked in Leith Harbour. Capt. Dinse.
Not registered. 12 [tons unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 58.75 W3 10.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 1323
Name : COMET
Latitude : 555845
Longitude : 31000
Registration : Not Registered
Type : SLOOP (WOOD)
Tonnage : 12
Loss Day : 16
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1884
Comment : Wrecked in Leith Harbour. Capt. Dinse
Cargo : COAL
