Saxon: Skateraw, Firth Of Forth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Saxon: Skateraw, Firth Of Forth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Skate Raw; Outer Forth Estuary; Saxon
Canmore ID 260658
Site Number NT77NW 8026
NGR NT 737 756
NGR Description NT c. 737 756
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
NT77NW 8026 c. 737 756
N55 58.4 W2 25.3
NLO: Skateraw Harbour [name: NT 737 756].
14 October 1881, SAXON, 28 yrs old, of Montrose, wooden schooner, 145 tons, 5 crew, Master W. Watt, Owner A. Watt, Montrose, departed Montrose for Sunderland, in ballast, wind NE11, stranded, total loss, near Skateraw [Skate Raw], Haddington.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1881-82 (1883 [C.3487] LXIII.135).
Montrose, Nov. 2, SAXON schooner, Watt, which went ashore at Skaterawe [Skate Raw] during the gale of Oct. 14, was bound hence to Sunderland, in ballast.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,067, London, Friday November 4 1881.
Dunbar, Oct. 15, 1.10 p.m., SAXON schooner, Watt, is on shore at Skaterawe: [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3195).
(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast; date of loss cited as 14 October 1881). Saxon: this vessel stranded near Skateraw [Skate Raw]. Capt. Watt.
Registration: Montrose. Built 1853. 145grt. Length: 27m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 58.5 W2 25.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13934
Name : SAXON
Latitude : 555830
Longitude : 22500
Date Built : 1853
Registration : MONTROSE
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 145
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 27
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 14
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1881
Comment : Stranded near Skateraw. Capt. Watt
Cargo : BALLAST