Fri: Beamer Rock, Firth Of Forth
Schooner (20th Century)
Site Name Fri: Beamer Rock, Firth Of Forth
Classification Schooner (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Queensferry Narrows; Beaver Rock; Outer Forth Estuary; Fri
Canmore ID 120209
Site Number NT18SW 8006
NGR NT 119 800
NGR Description NT c. 119 800
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT18SW 8006 c. 119 800
N56 3 W3 24.8
NLO: Beamer Rock [name: NT 119 800].
Formerly entered as NT18SW 8150 at cited location NT 1167 8011 [N56 0.3 W3 25].
Possibly on map sheet NT17NW.
The schooner Fri of Christiansand, which ran ashore on the Beaver [Beamer] Rock near the Forth Bridge has been abandoned. The light on the rock was mistaken for the centre light of the bridge, and this, it is supposed, caused the mishap. She was laden with 260 tons of coal, and was on her way from Grangemouth. Efforts to tow the vessel resulted in her keel being wrenched away. The vessel, as it lies, is to be put up for auction at Leith.
Source: Fifeshire Advertiser, 25 August 1906.
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 20 August 1906). This vessel stranded on Beamer Rock.
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 7121
Name : FRI
Latitude : 560018
Longitude : 32428
Registration : NORWEGIAN
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Loss Day : 20
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1906
Comment : Stranded on Beamer Rock.
Cargo : COAL