Thistle: Inch Garvie, Firth Of Forth

NT17NW 8021 c. 137 795

N56 0 W3 23.0

NLO: Inch Garvie [name: NT 137 795]

Forth Bridge [name: NT 135 795].

North Queensferry, 3rd July, the THISTLE (schr.), of Aberdeen, from Charlestown, with coal and iron, has gone ashore on Inchgarvie: she will fill this tide, and most likely become a wreck: her cargo may be saved.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,161, London, Thursday July 4 1872.

Leith, 8th July, the THISTLE (schr.) (Off. No.15,617), Cameron, from Charlestown, with coal and iron, reported, 3rd July, as ashore on Inchgarvie island, was bound to Aberdeen. Sixteen tons of iron and 30 tons of coal have been landed from her at Queensferry, and it was expected that the rest of her cargo would be got out today, should the weather prove favourable.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,166, London, Wednesday July 10 [1872].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3818).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal and iron: date of loss cited as 3 July 1872). Thistle: this vessel stranded on Inchgarvie [Inch Garvie]. Capt. Cameron.

Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1827. 64grt. Length: 17m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 0.5 W3 23.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location of this loss may lie within the quasi-administrative areas designated as Maritime - West Lothian or Maritime - Fife.

The Forth Railway Bridge (NT17NW 70) extends from NT 1390 7790 to 1315 8082.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 July 2004.