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Supreme: Eyemouth Harbour Entrance, North Sea

Lugger (19th Century)

Site Name Supreme: Eyemouth Harbour Entrance, North Sea

Classification Lugger (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Bk 216; Luff Hard Rock; Firth Of Forth; Outer Forth Estuary; Supreme (Bk 216)

Canmore ID 250818

Site Number NT96SW 8026

NGR NT 946 646

NGR Description NT c. 946 646

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

NT96SW 8026 c. 946 646

N55 52.5 W2 5.2

NLO: Eyemouth [name: NT 945 644].

4 December 1896, SUPREME, 25 years, not reg. wood lugger. 26 ton, 7 men. Master J. Swanston. Owner W. Swanston, Eyemouth. Eyemouth to fishing. Ballast. Calm. Luff Hard Rock, entrance to Eyemouth Harbour.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1896-97 (1898 [C.8917] LXXXVIII.401).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 910).

(Registration number cited as BK 216 and classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 4 December 1896). This vessel stranded at Luff Hard, Eyemouth.

I G Whittaker 1998.

Luff Hard or Luff Hard Rock is not noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 October 2003.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 6277

Name : SUPREME (BK 216)

Latitude : 555230

Longitude : 20400

Date Built : 1871

Registration : BERWICK

Type : LUGGER (WOOD)

Tonnage : 28

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 15

Loss Day : 4

Loss Month : 12

Loss Year : 1896

Comment : Stranded Luff Hard, Eyemouth. Capt. Swanston

Cargo : BALLAST

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