Commercial Packet: Aberlady, Firth Of Forth
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Commercial Packet: Aberlady, Firth Of Forth
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) North Berwick; Outer Forth Estuary; Commercial Packet
Canmore ID 255045
Site Number NT48SE 8020
NGR NT 45 81
NGR Description NT c. 45 81
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council East Lothian
- Parish Maritime - East Lothian
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT48SE 8020 c. 45 81
N56 1 W2 53
NLO: Aberlady Bay [name centred NT 457 808]
Gullane Sands [name centred NT 455 815]
North Berwick [name: NT 55 85].
Not to be confused with NT58NE 8044 or NT79NE 8008.
Possibly on map sheet NT48SW.
7 Feb 1856, COMMERCIAL PACKET, sloop, 32 tons, 3 crew, carrying manure, stranded, total loss, 4 lives lost, wind W12, Aberlady.
Table 8, Wrecks and Casualties (exclusive of Collisions) occasioning Loss of Life during the Years 1851 to 1860.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1860 (1861 [2811] LVIII.335).
Leith, 8th Feb. During the gale yesterday, the COMMERCIAL PACKET (sloop), of this port, went to pieces near North Berwick: several lighters and coasting craft have been driven out to sea. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2110).
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as 8 February 1856). This vessel stranded near North Berwick and went to pieces.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially together.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 November 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5105
Name : COMMERCIAL PACKET
Latitude : 560400
Longitude : 24230
Date Built : 1812
Registration : LEITH
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 32
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 12
Beam : 4
Loss Day : 8
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1856
Comment : Stranded near North Berwick and went to pieces. Capt Fletcher
