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Northumberland: Hurkur Rocks, Eyemouth Bay, North Sea

Steamship (19th Century)

Site Name Northumberland: Hurkur Rocks, Eyemouth Bay, North Sea

Classification Steamship (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Hurkar Rock; Harkar Rock; Buss Craig Rock; Eyemouth; Firth Of Forth; Outer Forth Estuary; Northumberland

Canmore ID 199605

Site Number NT96NW 8045

NGR NT 948 650

NGR Description NT c. 948 650

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Scottish Borders, The
  • Parish Maritime - Scottish Borders, The
  • Former Region Borders
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NT96NW 8045 c. 948 650

N55 52.7 W2 5

NLO: Buss Craig [name: NT 948 650]

Eyemouth [name: NT 945 644].

Possibly on map sheet NT96SW.

2 December 1894, NORTHUMBERLAND, 25 years, of Newcastle. Iron steamship. 40 ton. 4 men. Master E.W. Whitehead. Owner G. Haxon, Byker, Newcastle. Dundee to Sunderland. Wheat. Wind S1. Harkar Rock off Eyemouth.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1894-95 (1896 [C.8247] LXXV.489).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1055).

(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of wheat: date of loss cited as 2 December 1894). This vessel stranded at Hurkar, Eyemouth.

I G Whittaker 1998.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 2926

Name : NORTHUMBERLAND

Latitude : 555240

Longitude : 20500

Date Built : 1869

Registration : NEWCASTLE

Type : SS (IRON)

Tonnage : 40

Tonnage Code : N

Loss Day : 2

Loss Month : 12

Loss Year : 1894

Comment : Stranded Hurkar, Eyemouth. Capt. Whitehead

Cargo : WHEAT

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