Canadian: North Berwick, Firth Of Forth
Lighter (19th Century)
Site Name Canadian: North Berwick, Firth Of Forth
Classification Lighter (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Outer Forth Estuary; Canadian
Canmore ID 262635
Site Number NT58NE 8032
NGR NT 55 85
NGR Description NT c. 55 85
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
NT58NE 8032 c. 55 85
N56 3 W2 43
NLO: North Berwick [name: NT 55 85].
Possibly on map sheet NT58NW.
Dunbar, 30th Jan., the CANADIAN (screw lighter), of Newcastle, hence to the Firth of Forth, in ballast, has gone on shore near North Berwick, and is likely to break up.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,341, London, Friday January 31 1873.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3932).
(Classified as wooden screw lighter: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 28 January 1873). This vessel was wrecked near North Berwick.
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13350
Name : CANADIAN
Latitude : 560400
Longitude : 24230
Date Built : 1871
Registration : NEWCASTLE
Type : STEAM LIGHTER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 55
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 20
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 28
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1873
Comment : Wrecked near North Berwick.
