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Aberdeen: Firth Of Forth
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Aberdeen: Firth Of Forth
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On Rocks Off Kinghorn'; Outer Forth Estuary; Aberdeen
Canmore ID 315723
Site Number NT28NE 8025
NGR NT 27 86
NGR Description NT c. 27 86
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/315723
- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
Loss (1 January 1801 - 31 December 1801)
(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 1801). Aberdeen: [this vessel was] wrecked on rocks off Kinghorn, Fife.
Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N56 4.00 W3 10.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5599
Name : ABERDEEN
Latitude : 560400
Longitude : 31000
Registration : BRITISH
Type : SMACK
Loss Year : 1801
Comment : Wrecked on rocks off Kinghorn, Fife
Note (28 February 2012)
(Location entered as NT c. 27 86 [N56 4 W3 10]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The vessel evidently stranded on one or other of the several offshore skerries that lie within OS 1-km square NT 27 86.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 February 2012.
