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