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Rose: Willowgate, Perth, River Tay
Lighter (19th Century)
Site Name Rose: Willowgate, Perth, River Tay
Classification Lighter (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Friarton Or Moncrieffe Island; Rose
Canmore ID 276939
Site Number NO12SW 8001
NGR NO 1238 2234
NGR Description NO c. 1238 2234
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/276939
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Maritime - Perth And Kinross
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO12SW 8001 c. 12 23
N56 23 W3 26
NLO: Perth [name: NO 120 235].
(Classified as lighter, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 2 November 1825). Rose: this vessel was destroyed by fire at Willowgate, Perth.
Registration: Dundee.
(Location of loss cited as N56 23.0 W3 25.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location of loss assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The location of (the) Willowgate cannot be established, but the vessel was presumably burnt downriver of the bridge NO12SW 264.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 November 2005.
Loss (2 November 1825)
(Classified as lighter, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 2 November 1825). Rose: this vessel was destroyed by fire at [the] Willowgate, Perth.
Registration: Dundee.
(Location of loss cited as N56 23.00 W3 25.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 17817
Name : ROSE
Latitude : 562300
Longitude : 32500
Registration : DUNDEE
Type : LIGHTER
Loss Day : 2
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1825
Comment : Destroyed by fire at Willowgate, Perth.
Cargo : GENERAL
Named Location (Nlo) (10 February 2012)
NLO: Perth [name: NO 120 235]
Friarton or Moncrieffe Island [name centred NO 123 219]
Willowgate [name centred NO 123 223].
Note (10 February 2012)
(Location re-entered as NO c. 1238 2234 [N56 23.11 W3 35.24]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The current edition of the OS (GIS)MasterMap applies the name Willowgate to the narrow channel to the E of Friarton or Moncruieffe Island, to the S of the town. As currently mapped, the channel extends from NO 1223 2363 (where there is a causeway) to NO 1280 2165.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 February 2012.
External Reference (10 February 2012)
Per contra the above, the Willowgate is the name given to the subsidiary channel of the Tay that runs on the east side of Moncrieff Island. It is shown on Macfarlane’s 1792 map and was causing the Town concern some 40 years earlier when it was becoming apparent that the increasing draught of vessels and shallowness of the river was making the older upper harbour inaccessible. Attempts were made to redirect the main flow down the Westmost channel and, at the same time, similar braided sections downstream, at Sleepless Inch for example, were completely filled in to increase the flow.
The Willowgate still appears in the Leslie 1885 map and there seem to be small quays on the Barnhill bank directly level with the Prison [RCAHMS NO12SW 356.00]. Perhaps this is where the vessel met its end.
(PKHT cite an unverified location at NO 12082 22278).
Information from Jeremy Duncan’s Lost Perth per Andrew Driver, Sarah Malone and David Strachan (PKHT), 10 February 2012.
Note (9 February 2012)
(Location entered as NO c. 12 23 [N56 23 W3 26]). The location of loss assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The location of (the) Willowgate cannot be established, but the vessel was presumably burnt downriver of the bridge NO12SW 264.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 February 2012.
