Express: Inch Garvie, Firth Of Forth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Express: Inch Garvie, Firth Of Forth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Inchgarvie; Inchgarvel Island; Queensferry Narrows; Middle Forth Estuary
Canmore ID 269955
Site Number NT17NW 8024
NGR NT 137 795
NGR Description NT c. 137 795
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
NT17NW 8024 c. 137 795
N56 0 W3 23.0
NLO: Inch Garvie [name: NT 137 795]
Forth Bridge [name: NT 135 795].
North Queensferry, Oct., 4.50 p.m., EXPRESS schooner, of Wick, from Alloa for Leven (light), is ashore on Inchgarvie Island, filling fast and likely to become a total wreck: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,051, London, Monday October 17 1881.
North Queensferry, Oct. 22, 11.35 a.m., EXPRESS schooner, reported stranded on the 14th on Inchgarvel [Inch Garvie] Island, is now in St. Margaret's Hope, among shipping, on her beam ends: a wreck anchor holding: dangerous to shipping.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,057, London, Monday October 24 [1881].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5212).
The location of this incident may lie within the quasi-administrative areas designated as Maritime - West Lothian or Maritime - Fife. The available account appears to place the loss on Inchgarvie, within Queensferry Narrows.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on grounds of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 January 2005.