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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

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

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.

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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

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