Annette: Fife Ness, North Sea
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Annette: Fife Ness, North Sea
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Annetta; Fifeness; Outer Forth Estuary; Outer Tay Estuary; Firth Of Forth; Firth Of Tay; Annette (Annetta ?)
Canmore ID 120964
Site Number NO60NW 8011
NGR NO 639 098
NGR Description NO c. 639 098
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO60NW 8011 c. 639 098
N56 16.8 W2 35.1
NLO: Fife Ness [name: NO 639 098].
Possibly on map sheet NO61SW.
Formerly entered as NO60NW 8195 at cited location NO 6400 0975 [N56 16.7 W2 34.8], and at cited location NO c. 639 099 [N56 16.8 W2 35].
Not to be confused with NO60NW 8082.
14 July 1879, ANNETTE, 45 yrs old, of Norway, wooden brig, 164 tons, 7 crew, Master A. Kjol, Owner G. G. Maarud, Christiania, departed Christiania for Leith Roads for orders, carrying pit props, wind NE9, stranded, total loss, Fife Ness, Co. Fife.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
Crail, July 14, 9.5 a.m., ANNETTA brig, of and from Christiania (pitprops) for Leith Roads, ashore at Fifeness this morning: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,347, London, Tuesday July 15 1879.
Anstruther, July 14. ANNETTE, brig, Kjol, of and from Christiania for Leith Roads for orders (pit props), struck the rocks inside Carr Rock Beacon this morning, and carried away her rudder: she struck a second time and remains: her mainmast had to be cut away to save vessel from falling over to seaward. Unless the weather moderates vessel will become a total wreck.
Crail, July 14, 9.5 a.m., ANNETTA brig, of and from Christiania [Oslo] (pitprops) for Leith Roads, ashore at Fifeness [Fife Ness] this morning: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,349, London, Thursday July 17 1879.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2955).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of pit props: date of loss cited as 14 July 1879). Annette (Annetta?): this vessel stranded [at] Fife Ness. Capt. Kjol.
Registration: Norwegian. Built 1834. 164 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N56 17.00 W2 35.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 August 2010.
Loss (14 July 1879)
14 July 1879, ANNETTE, 45 yrs old, of Norway, wooden brig, 164 tons, 7 crew, Master A. Kjol, Owner G. G. Maarud, Christiania, departed Christiania for Leith Roads for orders, carrying pit props, wind NE9, stranded, total loss, Fife Ness, Co. Fife.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
Crail, July 14, 9.5 a.m., ANNETTA brig, of and from Christiania (pitprops) for Leith Roads, ashore at Fifeness this morning: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,347, London, Tuesday July 15 1879.
Anstruther, July 14. ANNETTE, brig, Kjol, of and from Christiania for Leith Roads for orders (pit props), struck the rocks inside Carr Rock Beacon this morning, and carried away her rudder: she struck a second time and remains: her mainmast had to be cut away to save vessel from falling over to seaward. Unless the weather moderates vessel will become a total wreck.
Crail, July 14, 9.5 a.m., ANNETTA brig, of and from Christiania [Oslo] (pitprops) for Leith Roads, ashore at Fifeness [Fife Ness] this morning: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,349, London, Thursday July 17 1879.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2955).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of pit props: date of loss cited as 14 July 1879). Annette (Annetta?): this vessel stranded [at] Fife Ness. Capt. Kjol.
Registration: Norwegian. Built 1834. 164 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N56 17.00 W2 35.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (27 August 2010)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 August 2010.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5802
Name : ANNETTE (ANNETTA ?)
Latitude : 561700
Longitude : 23500
Date Built : 1834
Registration : NORWEGIAN
Type : BRIG (WOOD)
Tonnage : 164
Loss Day : 14
Loss Month : 7
Loss Year : 1879
Comment : Stranded Fife Ness. Capt. Kjol
Cargo : PIT PROPS