Industry: Kirkcaldy Harbour Entrance, Firth Of Forth
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Industry: Kirkcaldy Harbour Entrance, Firth Of Forth
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Behind The West Pier'; 'near Kirkcaldy'; Outer Forth Estuary; Industry
Canmore ID 271084
Site Number NT29SE 8020
NGR NT 285 919
NGR Description NT c. 285 919
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT29SE 8020 c. 285 919
N56 6.9 W3 9
NLO: Kirkcaldy [name: NT 281 913].
Glasgow, 10th Oct. 'The INDUSTRY, of Alloa, in making for Kirkaldy [Kirkcaldy] harbor during a gale on the 1st instant, took the ground, was driven behind the West Pier, and had her bottom stove in.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7098, London, Tuesday October 13 1835.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7097).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 1 October 1835). Industry: this vessel was wrecked near Kirkcaldy.
Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N56 7.0 W3 9.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Kirkcaldy Harbour (NT29SE 44.00) is at NT 28549 91932.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 June 2007.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 12723
Name : INDUSTRY
Latitude : 560700
Longitude : 30900
Registration : BRITISH
Loss Day : 1
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1835
Comment : Wrecked near Kirkcaldy.