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Hvide Stjorne: Oxcars, Firth Of Forth

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Hvide Stjorne: Oxcars, Firth Of Forth

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Hvide Stjerne; Oxcar Rocks; Oxar Rocks; Outer Forth Estuary

Canmore ID 193008

Site Number NT28SW 8009

NGR NT 203 817

NGR Description NT c. 203 817

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Maritime - Fife
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NT28SW 8009 c. 203 817

N56 1.3 W3 16.7

NLO: Oxcars [name: NT 203 817].

The Norwegian schooner Hvide Stjorne of Sandefiord, bound for Alloa with a cargo of oak staves from Memel, had been anchored at the back of Inchkeith [name: NT 29 82] on Sunday afternoon, but breaking away from one of her anchors that night, and the other at 7 o'clock on Tuesday morning, she was driven before the gale, and struck the Oxcar Rocks [Oxcars: NT 203 817], becoming a total wreck. The crew of six got into a boat and landed safely at North Queensferry [name: NT 133 803].

Source: Fifeshire Advertiser, 24 September 1898.

18 October 1898. HVIDE STJERNE, 41 years, of Norway, wood schooner, 132 ton, 6 men, master K.O. Jacebsen, owner P. Borgen, Sandefjord, Norway. Oxars [Oxcars] Rocks, Firth of Forth. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 707).

(Name cited as Hvide Stjerne and classified as wooden barque with cargo of oak staves: date of loss cited as 18 October 1898). This vessel stranded on Oxcar Rock, [Firth of] Forth.

I G Whittaker 1998.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 3284

Name : HVIDE STJERNE

Latitude : 560120

Longitude : 31640

Date Built : 1857

Registration : SANDEFJORD

Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)

Tonnage : 170

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 29

Beam : 7

Draught : 4m

Loss Day : 18

Loss Month : 10

Loss Year : 1898

Comment : Stranded Oxcar Rk, Forth. Capt. Jacobsen

Cargo : OAK STAVES

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