Lucy End: Whitburgh Point, Firth Of Forth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Lucy End: Whitburgh Point, Firth Of Forth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Whitburyness; Dunbar; Outer Forth Estuary; Lucy End
Canmore ID 274179
Site Number NT68SW 8054
NGR NT 6430 8093
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/274179
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Maritime - East Lothian
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT68SW 8054 unlocated
See also NT68SW 8008 and NT77SE 8016.
NLO: Dunbar [name: NT 678 790].
Dunbar, 24th Oct. The following vessels are ashore near this place, viz.:- LOUISE, Demazure, from Charente to Leith, with brandy, a total wreck: crew and part of cargo saved. TRITON, Brandt, from Rostock to Leith, with wheat, a total wreck: mate only saved. LUCY END, Craigie, from Montrose to London, with deals: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,768, London, Monday, October 24 1864.
Dunbar, 24th Oct. The LUCY END, Craigie, of & from Montrose, for London, stranded yesterday near Whiteburyness, is full of water: cargo (boards) being discharged. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10666).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 23 October 1864). Lucy End: this vessel stranded at Whitburyness (Whitburgh Point?). Capt. Craigie.
Registration: Montrose. Built 1834. 85grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 1.33 W2 34.75).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Neither Whitburyness nor Whitburgh Point is noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 August 2005.
Loss (23 October 1864)
Dunbar, 24th Oct. The following vessels are ashore near this place, viz.:- LOUISE, Demazure, from Charente to Leith, with brandy, a total wreck: crew and part of cargo saved. TRITON, Brandt, from Rostock to Leith, with wheat, a total wreck: mate only saved. LUCY END, Craigie, from Montrose to London, with deals: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,768, London, Monday, October 24 1864.
Dunbar, 24th Oct. The LUCY END, Craigie, of & from Montrose, for London, stranded yesterday near Whiteburyness, is full of water: cargo (boards) being discharged. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10666).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 23 October 1864). Lucy End: this vessel stranded at Whitburyness (Whitburgh Point?). Capt. Craigie.
Registration: Montrose. Built 1834. 85grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 1.33 W2 34.75).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (17 August 2005)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Neither Whitburyness nor Whitburgh Point is noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 August 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11515
Name : LUCY END
Latitude : 560120
Longitude : 23445
Date Built : 1834
Registration : MONTROSE
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 85
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 20
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 23
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1864
Comment : Stranded at Whitburyness. (Whitburgh Pt?). Capt. Craigie