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Margaret Jane: Carr Brigs, Fife Ness, North Sea

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Margaret Jane: Carr Brigs, Fife Ness, North Sea

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) South Carr Rocks; South Carr Rock; Carr Briggs; Outer Forth Estuary; Outer Tay Estuary; Firth Of Forth; Firth Of Tay; Margaret Jane

Canmore ID 199120

Site Number NO61SW 8038

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 8038 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].

8 December 1886. MARGARET JANE. 26 years of Aberwystwith. Wood schooner. 89 ton. 4 crew. Master and owner D. Parry, Aberwystwith. Aberdovy to Aberdeen. Slabs and slates. 4 dead. Wind SE6. South Carr Rocks, Firth of Forth.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1886-87 (1888 [C.5479] XC.735).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1772).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of slates and slabs: date of loss cited as 8 December 1886). This vessel stranded on South Carr Rock [Carr Brigs].

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. That of South Carr Rock cannot be established from the available map evidence.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 October 2001.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 3909

Name : MARGARET JANE

Latitude : 560330

Longitude : 23730

Date Built : 1860

Registration : ABERYSTWYTH

Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)

Tonnage : 89

Tonnage Code : N

Length : 23

Beam : 6

Draught : 3m

Loss Day : 8

Loss Month : 12

Loss Year : 1886

Comment : Stranded South Carr Rock. Capt. Parry

Cargo : SLATES & SLABS

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