Louise: Inch Garvie, Firth Of Forth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Louise: Inch Garvie, Firth Of Forth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Inchgarvie; Inchgarvy; Forth Bridge; Forth Rail Bridge; Middle Forth Estuary
Canmore ID 267285
Site Number NT17NW 8022
NGR NT 137 795
NGR Description NT c. 137 795
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Maritime - Edinburgh, City Of
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT17NW 8022 c. 137 795
N56 0 W3 23.0
NLO: Inch Garvie [name: NT 137 795]
Forth Bridge [name: NT 135 795].
North Queensferry, 31st Aug., 1.55 p.m., LOUISE (Ger. schr.) ran ashore on Inchgarvie at 9.30 a.m. today: she has just listed over: not known what injuries.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,767, London, Saturday September 1 1877.
North Queensferry, 31st Aug., the LOUISE (Ger. schr.), reported by telegraph today as ashore on Inchgarvy [Inchgarvie], got off at 3.45 p.m., and proceeded: she is bound from Bo'ness to Riga, with coal.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,768, London, Tuesday September 4 [1877].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4667).
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.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on grounds of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 October 2004.
