Onward: Eyemouth Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Onward: Eyemouth Harbour Entrance, North Sea
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bk 1061; Firth Of Forth; Outer Forth Estuary; Onward (Bk 1061)
Canmore ID 199290
Site Number NT96SW 8019
NGR NT 946 646
NGR Description NT c. 946 646
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Scottish Borders, The
- Parish Maritime - Scottish Borders, The
- Former Region Borders
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT96SW 8019 c. 946 646
N55 52.5 W2 5.2
NLO: Eyemouth [name: NT 945 644].
27 November 1888. ONWARD. 5 years. Not reg. Wood lugger. 30 ton. 7 men. Master J. Dougal. Owner A. Dougal, Eyemouth. Eyemouth to fishing. Ballast. Wind E9. Entrance to Eyemouth Harbour.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1608).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: registration number cited as BK 1061 and date of loss as 27 November 1888). This vessel stranded at the entrance to Eyemouth.
I G Whittaker 1998.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4051
Name : ONWARD (BK 1061)
Latitude : 555230
Longitude : 20500
Date Built : 1863
Registration : BERWICK
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 30
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 15
Loss Day : 27
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1888
Comment : Stranded entr to Eyemouth. Capt. Dougal
Cargo : BALLAST