Onny: Craig Spurry, Inch Garvie, Firth Of Forth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Onny: Craig Spurry, Inch Garvie, Firth Of Forth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Onni; Inchgarvie; Queensferry Narrows;middle Forth Estuary; Onny
Canmore ID 198444
Site Number NT17NW 8009
NGR NT 136 795
NGR Description NT c. 136 795
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Maritime - Edinburgh, City Of
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT17NW 8009 c. 136 795
N56 0 W3 23.1
NLO: Inch Garvie [NT 136 795].
17 June 1878, ONNY, 14 yrs old, of Norway, wooden schooner, 89 tons, 5 crew, Master C. Salvesen, Owner S. Aogeun, Sandfjord, Norway, departed Charlestown, Fife, for Aalborg, carrying coal, wind W1, stranded, Craig Spurry, near Inch Garvie [Inchgarvie] Island, Firth of Forth.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1877 - 78 (1878-79 [C.2314] LXIV.395).
North Queensferry, 17th June, 8 a.m., Norw. schr. ONNY (?ONNI), of Sandefjord, from Charlestown to Aalborg, with coal, is ashore on Inch Garvie [Inchgarvie], with back broken. She is not insured.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,013, London, Tuesday June 18 1878.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2868).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 17 June 1878). Onny: this vessel stranded on Craig Spurry, near Inchgarvie. Capt. Salvesen.
Registration: Norwegian. Built 1864. 89 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N56 0.5 W3 23.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Craig Spurry is not noted as such on the 1998 editin of the Os 1:50,000 map, but the name presumably applies to one of the rocks that fringe Inchgarvie island.
The location of this loss may lie within the quasi-administrative areas designated as Maritime - West Lothian or Maritime - Fife.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 October 2001.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5493
Name : ONNY
Latitude : 560030
Longitude : 32300
Date Built : 1864
Registration : NORWEGIAN
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 89
Loss Day : 17
Loss Month : 6
Loss Year : 1878
Comment : Stranded Craig Spurry, near Inchgarvie. Capt. Salvesen
Cargo : COAL