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Stirling Castle: Beamer Rock, Firth Of Forth

Steamship (19th Century)

Site Name Stirling Castle: Beamer Rock, Firth Of Forth

Classification Steamship (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'On The Beamer Rocks'; North Queensferry; Queensferry Narrows; Outer Forth Estuary; Stirling Castle

Canmore ID 197456

Site Number NT18SW 8013

NGR NT 119 800

NGR Description NT c. 119 800

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

NT18SW 8013 c. 119 800

N56 3 W3 24.8

NLO: Beamer Rock [name: NT 119 800]

Possibly on map sheet NT17NW.

Not to be confused with NT28NE 8014.

Leith, 25th Nov. The STIRLING CASTLE (s), hence to Alloa, ran on the Beamer rocks, North Queensferry, in the night of 21st Nov., during a gale. Her bottom was much damaged, and she filled with water and had to be abandoned.

Source: LL, No. 15,487, London, Saturday, November 28 1863.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10483).

(Classified as steamship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 21 November 1863). Stirling Castle: this vessel stranded on Beamer Rock, and was abandoned.

(Location of loss cited as N56 0.33 W3 24.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. It remains uncertain whether, where and when the vessel subsequently stranded or (more probably) foundered.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 August 2005.

Activities

Loss (21 November 1863)

Leith, 25th Nov. The STIRLING CASTLE (s), hence to Alloa, ran on the Beamer rocks, North Queensferry, in the night of 21st Nov., during a gale. Her bottom was much damaged, and she filled with water and had to be abandoned.

Source: LL, No. 15,487, London, Saturday, November 28 1863.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10483).

(Classified as steamship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 21 November 1863). Stirling Castle: this vessel stranded on Beamer Rock, and was abandoned.

(Location of loss cited as N56 0.33 W3 24.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (10 August 2005)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. It remains uncertain whether, where and when the vessel subsequently stranded or (more probably) foundered.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 August 2005.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 11396

Name : STIRLING CASTLE

Latitude : 560020

Longitude : 32430

Type : SS

Loss Day : 21

Loss Month : 11

Loss Year : 1863

Comment : Stranded on Beamer Rock and abandoned.

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