Triton: Thorntonloch, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Triton: Thorntonloch, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Thornton Loch; Firth Of Forth; Outer Forth Estuary
Canmore ID 255641
Site Number NT77SE 8016
NGR NT 75 74
NGR Description NT c. 75 74
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
NT77SE 8016 c. 75 74
N55 58 W2 24
NLO: Thorntonloch [name: NT 751 744]
Dunbar [name: NT 678 790].
Possibly on map sheet NT77SW.
See also NT68SW 8008 and NT68SW 8054.
23 October 1864, TRITON, 13 yrs old, schooner, 90 tons, 5 crew, departed Rostock on 3 Oct, for Leith carrying wheat, stranded, total loss, 4 lives lost, wind ENE12, Thornton Loch, 6 miles E of Dunbar.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2205).
Dunbar, 24th Oct. The following vessels are ashore near this place, viz.:- LOUISE, Demazure, from Charente to Leith, with brandy, a total wreck: crew and part of cargo saved. TRITON, Brandt, from Rostock to Leith, with wheat, a total wreck: mate only saved. LUCY END, Craigie, from Montrose to London, with deals: crew saved. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10665).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 March 2004.
Loss (23 October 1864)
23 October 1864, TRITON, 13 yrs old, schooner, 90 tons, 5 crew, departed Rostock on 3 Oct, for Leith carrying wheat, stranded, total loss, 4 lives lost, wind ENE12, Thornton Loch, 6 miles E of Dunbar.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2205).
Dunbar, 24th Oct. The following vessels are ashore near this place, viz.:- LOUISE, Demazure, from Charente to Leith, with brandy, a total wreck: crew and part of cargo saved. TRITON, Brandt, from Rostock to Leith, with wheat, a total wreck: mate only saved. LUCY END, Craigie, from Montrose to London, with deals: crew saved. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10665).
Note (16 March 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 March 2004.
