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Forbeses: Fife Ness, North Sea

Dandy (19th Century)

Site Name Forbeses: Fife Ness, North Sea

Classification Dandy (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Outer Forth Estuary; Outer Tay Estuary; Firth Of Forth; Firth Of Tay; Forbeses

Canmore ID 251408

Site Number NO60NW 8049

NGR NO 639 098

NGR Description NO c. 639 098

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Maritime - Fife
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NO60NW 8049 c. 639 098

N56 16.8 W2 35.1

NLO: Fife Ness (name: NO 639 098).

Possibly on map sheet NO61SW.

Location formerly entered as NO c. 63 09 [N56 16 W2 36].

26 April 1895, FORBESES, 16 years, of Fraserburgh. Wood trading dandy. 24 ton. 3 men. Master and owner C.W. Forbes, Fraserburgh. Dundee to Bo'ness. Ballast. Wind NE4. Fife Ness.

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. 1104).

(Classified as wooden dandy, in ballast: date of loss cited as 26 April 1895). Forbeses: this vessel stranded [at] Fife Ness. Capt. Forbes.

Registration: Fraserburgh. Built 1879. 30grt. Length: 17m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 17.00 W2 35.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 October 2003.

Activities

Loss (26 April 1895)

26 April 1895, FORBESES, 16 years, of Fraserburgh. Wood trading dandy. 24 ton. 3 men. Master and owner C.W. Forbes, Fraserburgh. Dundee to Bo'ness. Ballast. Wind NE4. Fife Ness.

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. 1104).

(Classified as wooden dandy, in ballast: date of loss cited as 26 April 1895). Forbeses: this vessel stranded [at] Fife Ness. Capt. Forbes.

Registration: Fraserburgh. Built 1879. 30grt. Length: 17m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 17.00 W2 35.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (17 October 2003)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 October 2003.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 4275

Name : FORBESES

Latitude : 561700

Longitude : 23500

Date Built : 1879

Registration : FRASERBURGH

Type : DANDY (WOOD)

Tonnage : 30

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 17

Beam : 5

Loss Day : 26

Loss Month : 4

Loss Year : 1895

Comment : Stranded Fife Ness. Capt. Forbes

Cargo : BALLAST

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