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Stag: Gullane Point, Firth Of Forth

Sloop (19th Century)

Site Name Stag: Gullane Point, Firth Of Forth

Classification Sloop (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'Near Gullan Point'; Aberlady Bay; Outer Forth Estuary; Stag

Canmore ID 196627

Site Number NT48SE 8012

NGR NT 461 830

NGR Description NT c. 461 830

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council East Lothian
  • Parish Maritime - East Lothian
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NT48SE 8012 c. 461 830

N56 2.2 W2 51.9

NLO: Gullane Point [name: NT 460 830]

Aberlady Bay [name centred NT 457 808]

Gullane Sands [name centred NT 455 815].

A sloop with 'STAG of Banff' on the stern, was wrecked near Gullan [Gullane] Point, East Lothian, 8th inst., and all on board drowned. She was bound from Portsoy to Leith.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6203, London, Friday March 16 1827.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6552).

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 8 March 1827). Stag: this vessel was wrecked at Gullane Point. Capt. Geddes.

Registration: Banff. Built 1815. 48 tons burthern. Length: 14m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 2.25 W2 52.25).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 April 2005.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 14005

Name : STAG

Latitude : 560215

Longitude : 25215

Date Built : 1815

Registration : BANFF

Type : SLOOP

Tonnage : 48

Tonnage Code : B

Length : 14

Beam : 5

Loss Day : 8

Loss Month : 3

Loss Year : 1827

Comment : Wrecked at Gullane Point. Capt. Geddes

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