Unknown: Firth Of Forth
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Firth Of Forth
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Kirkcaldy'; Outer Forth Estuary; Unknown 1872
Canmore ID 289326
Site Number NT39SW 8033
NGR NT 31 90
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/289326
- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT39SW 8033 unlocated
NLO: Kirkcaldy [name: NT 281 913].
Formerly also entered as NT29SE 8012 (unlocated).
10 December 1872, UNKNOWN, pilot boat, 10 tons (say), 1 crew, cruizing off Kirkcaldy, in ballast, collision, total loss, 1 life lost, wind ENE4, off Kirkcaldy, Firth of Forth.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2440).
(Classified as Pilot Boat: date of loss cited as 10 December 1872). Unknown: this vessel was in collision and sank off Kirkcaldy.
(Location of loss cited as N56 6.0 W3 6.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 June 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 18052
Name : UNKNOWN 1872
Latitude : 560600
Longitude : 30600
Type : PILOT BOAT
Loss Day : 10
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1872
Comment : Collision and sunk off Kirkcaldy.
