Unknown: Firth Of Forth
Craft (Possible)
Site Name Unknown: Firth Of Forth
Classification Craft (Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Kincraig Point; Elie Ness; Outer Forth Estuary
Canmore ID 96701
Site Number NT49NW 8003
NGR NT 4444 9619
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/96701
- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT49NW 8003 4444 9619
N56 9.3167 W2 53.6667
Formerly entered as NT49NW 8170.
NLO: Elie [name: NT 493 997]
Elie Ness [name: NT 496 993].
Quality of fix = D
Evidence = Echo sounder
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 30
Surveying Details
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A non-sub contact was reported at 56 09 12N, 002 54 30W.
Report by Commander in Chief, Rosyth, 16 March 1940.
29 July 1960. The wreck was not located in the original positon indicate, but a wreck was found at 56 09 19N,002 53 40W. The site was not swept. The least clear water depth given by the echosounder was 15m in a general depth of 32.9 metres.
26 October 1988. Still nothing has been located during thorough search around this position. The site could possibly be the wreck located at 56 09 17N, 002 52 51W (Hydrographic Office Unique identifier 005202760).
Hydrographic Office 1995.
Evidence Of Loss (1995)
Quality of fix = D
Evidence = Echo sounder
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 30
Surveying Details
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A non-sub contact was reported at 56 09 12N, 002 54 30W.
Report by Commander in Chief, Rosyth, 16 March 1940.
29 July 1960. The wreck was not located in the original positon indicate, but a wreck was found at 56 09 19N,002 53 40W. The site was not swept. The least clear water depth given by the echosounder was 15m in a general depth of 32.9 metres.
26 October 1988. Still nothing has been located during thorough search around this position. The site could possibly be the wreck located at 56 09 17N, 002 52 51W (Hydrographic Office Unique identifier 005202760).
Hydrographic Office 1995.
External Reference (1998)
(No classification, cargo or date of loss specified). Unknown: pre 1940.
(No further information).
(Location of loss cited as N56 9.32 W2 53.67).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Named Location (Nlo) (2 March 2012)
NLO: Kincraig Point [name: NT 465 995]
Elie Ness [name: NT 496 993].
Formerly entered as NT49NW 8170.
Note (2 March 2012)
(Location entered as NT 4444 9619 [N56 9.3167 W2 53.6667]). The significance of this record is unclear. It may refer to a sonar contact or (more probably) a net snag on a wreck.
UKHO chart no. 734 (1993, revised 1995) charts the feature as 'Obstns' at depth 23m in a general depth of about 25m. The seabed shelves to the S; no seabed-type is charted nearby.
The cited location falls 2.4nm SW of Elie Ness and 1.65nm SSW of Kincraig Point.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 March 2012.
