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Renovatio: Carr Brigs, Fife Ness, North Sea

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Renovatio: Carr Brigs, Fife Ness, North Sea

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) '300 Yards From The South Car, Haddington'; South Carr; Carr Briggs; The Rodgers; Outer Forth Estuary; Outer Tay Estuary; Firth Of Forth; Firth Of Tay

Canmore ID 197636

Site Number NO61SW 8027

NGR NO 645 113

NGR Description NO c. 645 113

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

NO61SW 8027 c. 645 113

N56 17.6 W2 34.4

NLO: Carr Brigs [name: NO 645 113]

Fife Ness [name: NO 638 098]

North Carr Beacon [name: NO 647 115]

North Berwick [name: NT 55 85].

See also NT58NE 8049.

20 December 1870, RENOVATIO, 35 yrs old, schooner, 66 tons, 4 crew, departed St Andrew's [St Andrews] for unknown destination, carrying potatoes, stranded, total loss, 3 lives lost, wind SE9, 300 yards from the South Car [Carr], Haddington.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1870 (1871 [C.425] LXI.765).

North Berwick, 21st Dec. The RENOVATIO, of Portsmouth, and the BLOSSOM, of Aberdeen, were wrecked here this morning: total losses: crews drowned, except one hand belonging to the RENOVATIO.

Source, LL, No. 17,685, London, Thursday, December 22 1870.

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2405).

North Berwick, 21st Dec. The RENOVATIO, of Portsmouth, and the BLOSSOM, of Aberdeen, were wrecked here this morning: total losses: crews drowned, except one hand belonging to the RENOVATIO.

Source, LL, No. 17,685, London, Thursday, December 22 1870.

North Berwick, 23rd Dec. The BLOSSOM (schr.), of Aberdeen, which was wrecked here, 21st Dec., was bound from Shields to Aberdeen, with coals: Clark, master.

Source, LL, No. 17,695, London, Tuesday, January 3 1871.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11900).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of potatoes: date of loss cited as 20 December 1870). Renovatio: this vessel stranded 300 yds from South Carr, inside The Rodgers.

Registration: London. 66nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N 56 3.50 W2 37.25).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The attribution of this loss to 'Haddington' is evidently erroneous. The location of The Rodgers cannot be established from the available map evidence.

The date of loss that is cited in the primary account is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 March 2004.

NMRS, MS/829/68.

Activities

Loss (21 December 1870)

20 December 1870, RENOVATIO, 35 yrs old, schooner, 66 tons, 4 crew, departed St Andrew's [St Andrews] for unknown destination, carrying potatoes, stranded, total loss, 3 lives lost, wind SE9, 300 yards from the South Car [Carr], Haddington.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1870 (1871 [C.425] LXI.765).

North Berwick, 21st Dec. The RENOVATIO, of Portsmouth, and the BLOSSOM, of Aberdeen, were wrecked here this morning: total losses: crews drowned, except one hand belonging to the RENOVATIO.

Source, LL, No. 17,685, London, Thursday, December 22 1870.

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2405).

North Berwick, 21st Dec. The RENOVATIO, of Portsmouth, and the BLOSSOM, of Aberdeen, were wrecked here this morning: total losses: crews drowned, except one hand belonging to the RENOVATIO.

Source, LL, No. 17,685, London, Thursday, December 22 1870.

North Berwick, 23rd Dec. The BLOSSOM (schr.), of Aberdeen, which was wrecked here, 21st Dec., was bound from Shields to Aberdeen, with coals: Clark, master.

Source, LL, No. 17,695, London, Tuesday, January 3 1871.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11900).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of potatoes: date of loss cited as 20 December 1870). Renovatio: this vessel stranded 300 yds from South Carr, inside The Rodgers.

Registration: London. 66nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N 56 3.5 W2 37.25).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (23 March 2004)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The attribution of this loss to 'Haddington' is evidently erroneous. The location of The Rodgers cannot be established from the available map evidence.

The date of loss that is cited in the primary account is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 March 2004.

NMRS, MS/829/68.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 5349

Name : RENOVATIO

Latitude : 560330

Longitude : 23715

Registration : LONDON

Type : SCHOONER

Tonnage : 66

Tonnage Code : N

Loss Day : 20

Loss Month : 12

Loss Year : 1870

Comment : Stranded 300 yds from South Carr, inside The Rodgers.

Cargo : POTATOES

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