Ianthe: North Berwick, Firth Of Forth
Cutter (19th Century)
Site Name Ianthe: North Berwick, Firth Of Forth
Classification Cutter (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Outer Forth Estuary; Ianthe
Canmore ID 253808
Site Number NT58NE 8024
NGR NT 55 85
NGR Description NT c. 55 85
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
NT58NE 8024 c. 55 85
N56 3 W2 43
NLO: North Berwick [name: NT 55 85].
Possibly on map sheet NT58NW.
8th August 1884, IANTHE, 16 yrs old, registered Granton, wooden cutter (yacht), 6 tons, 3 crew, Master T. Simpson, Owner W. A. Wilson, Edinburgh. Departed Granton for North Berwick, in ballast. Wind calm, stranded North Berwick.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1948).
(Classified as wooden yacht, in ballast: date of loss cited as 8 August 1884). This vessel stranded at North Berwick.
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3455
Name : IANTHE
Latitude : 560400
Longitude : 24230
Date Built : 1869
Registration : GRANTON
Type : YACHT (WOOD)
Tonnage : 6
Tonnage Code : R
Length : 8
Beam : 2
Loss Day : 8
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1884
Comment : Stranded North Berwick. Capt. Simpson
Cargo : BALLAST