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