Turo: Inch Garvie, Forth Of Firth
Schooner (20th Century)
Site Name Turo: Inch Garvie, Forth Of Firth
Classification Schooner (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Queensferry Narrows; Inchgarvie; Thuro; Thyra; Thura; Karreboek; Middle Forth Estuary
Canmore ID 120204
Site Number NT17NW 8006
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 8006 c. 136 795
N56 0 W3 23.1
NLO: Inch Garvie [NT 136 795].
Formerly entered as NT17NW 191 at cited location NT 1373 7951 (N56 W3 23).
(Classified as Wooden Schooner, with cargo of pit props: date of loss cited as 13 November 1901). Thura: this vessel stranded on Inchgarvie [Inch Garvie]. Capt. Lindskog.
Registration: Swedish. Built 1890. 164 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N56 0.10 W3 23.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially tentative. The loss may alternatively have occurred within the quasi-administrative areas designated as Maritime - Fife or Maritime - West Lothian.
The form and spelling of the name of this vessel remain unclear.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 May 2004.
This vessel is not cited as either a wreck or a casualty in official Danish statistics, which are generally comprehensive and reliable. This may suggest that she was successfully recovered.
Information from Serena Cant (NMRC), 10 January 2008.