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Alfen: Cramond Island, Firth Of Forth

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Alfen: Cramond Island, Firth Of Forth

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Drum Sands; Outer Forth Estuary; Alfen

Canmore ID 250165

Site Number NT17NE 8006

NGR NT 197 785

NGR Description NT c. 197 785

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Edinburgh, City Of
  • Parish Maritime - Edinburgh, City Of
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NT17NE 8006 unlocated

See also NT17NE 8006.

NLO: Cramond Island [name: NT 197 785]

Cramond [name: NT 190 770]

Drum Sands [name centred NT 18 78].

17 October 1898. ALFEN, 42 years, of Norway. Wood schooner, 111 ton, 6 men, master O. Samuelsen, owner G. Gjeldahl & Co., Lillesand, Norway. Lillesand to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Timber. Wind E10. Cramond Island. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 695).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 17 October 1898). Alfen: this vessel stranded on Cramond Island. Capt. Samuelsen.

Registration: Lillesand. Built 1856. 121 grt. Length: 28m. Beam: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 59.5 W3 17.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 3226

Name : ALFEN

Latitude : 555930

Longitude : 31730

Date Built : 1856

Registration : LILLESAND

Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)

Tonnage : 121

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 28

Beam : 7

Draught : 3m

Loss Day : 17

Loss Month : 10

Loss Year : 1898

Comment : Stranded Cramond Island. Capt. Samuelsen

Cargo : TIMBER

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