Johanna Margaretta: Caroline Park, Granton, Firth Of Forth
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Johanna Margaretta: Caroline Park, Granton, Firth Of Forth
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'West Of Granton'; Granton Harbour; Leith; Outer Forth Estuary; Edinburgh; Johanna Margaretta
Canmore ID 273494
Site Number NT27NW 8043
NGR NT 22 77
NGR Description NT c. 22 77
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
NT27NW 8043 c. 22 77
N55 59 W3 15
NLO: Caroline Park [name: NT 228 722]
Granton Harbour [name: NT 237 777]
Port of Leith [name: NT 265 775].
See also NT27NW 8029, NT27NW 8042, NT27NW 8045, NT27NW 8069.
Granton, 23rd Oct. The following vessels drifted from their anchors under Inchkeith and are on shore outside the harbour breakwater, all of them total wrecks:- VICTORIA, of Denmark, Jensen, from Amsterdam, in ballast: JOHANNA MARGRETTA, of Norway, Larson, from Dundee to Langesund, in ballast: BOGAMILLA, of Pruss., Hensen, from Shields to Danzig: DOROTHEA, of Prussia, Saathoff, from London to Elsinore, in ballast: ELIZA HALL, of Whitby, Carr, from Gefle to London, with timber and iron: crews all saved, except one man drowned from the VICTORIA.
Source: LL, No. 15,769, London, Tuesday, October 25 1864.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10672).
(No classification specified: cargo cited as ballast, and date of loss cited as 22 October 1864). Johanna Margaretta: this vessel was wrecked at Caroline Park, West of Granton. Capt. Lawson.
Registration: Norwegian.
(Location of loss cited as N55 59.0 W3 14.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 August 2005.
Loss (22 October 1864)
Granton, 23rd Oct. The following vessels drifted from their anchors under Inchkeith and are on shore outside the harbour breakwater, all of them total wrecks:- VICTORIA, of Denmark, Jensen, from Amsterdam, in ballast: JOHANNA MARGRETTA, of Norway, Larson, from Dundee to Langesund, in ballast: BOGAMILLA, of Pruss., Hensen, from Shields to Danzig: DOROTHEA, of Prussia, Saathoff, from London to Elsinore, in ballast: ELIZA HALL, of Whitby, Carr, from Gefle to London, with timber and iron: crews all saved, except one man drowned from the VICTORIA.
Source: LL, No. 15,769, London, Tuesday, October 25 1864.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10672).
(No classification specified: cargo cited as ballast, and date of loss cited as 22 October 1864). Johanna Margaretta: this vessel was wrecked at Caroline Park, West of Granton. Capt. Lawson.
Registration: Norwegian.
(Location of loss cited as N55 59.0 W3 14.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (2 August 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 August 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11502
Name : JOHANNA MARGARETTA
Latitude : 555900
Longitude : 31430
Registration : NORWEGIAN
Loss Day : 22
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1864
Comment : Wrecked at Caroline Park, west of Granton. Capt. Lawson
Cargo : BALLAST
