Marys: Carr Brigs, Fife Ness, North Sea
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Marys: Carr Brigs, Fife Ness, North Sea
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'At The Entrance To The Firth Of Forth'; 'off Carr Rock'; Carr Briggs; Fifeness; Outer Forth Estuary; Outer Tay Estuary; Firth Of Forth; Firth Of Tay
Canmore ID 271086
Site Number NO61SW 8069
NGR NO 645 113
NGR Description NO c. 645 113
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO61SW 8069 c. 645 113
N56 17.6 W2 34.5
NLO: Carr Brigs [NO 645 112]
Fife Ness [name: NO 638 098]
North Carr Beacon [name: NO 646 116].
Formerly entered in error as NO64SW 8046 at cited location NO c. 64 40 [N56 33.00 W2 35.00], within quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Angus.
Location formerly entered as NO c. 64 11 [N56 17 W2 35].
Kirkaldy [Kirkcaldy], 4th Dec. 'The MARYS, Christie, from St. David's to Dundee, is wrecked at the entrance to this Frith [Firth of Forth]. Crew saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7219, London, Friday December 9 1836.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7195).
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 3 December 1836). Marys: this vessel was wrecked on an outlying rock off Carr Rock [Carr Briggs]. Capt. Christie.
Registration: Dundee. Built 1832. 119 tons burthen. Length: 21m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 17.75 W2 34.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Carr Rock is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but may be tentatively equated with one of the Carr Brigs, off Fife Ness.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 March 2005.
Loss (3 December 1836)
Kirkaldy [Kirkcaldy], 4th Dec. 'The MARYS, Christie, from St. David's to Dundee, is wrecked at the entrance to this Frith [Firth of Forth]. Crew saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 7219, London, Friday December 9 1836.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7195).
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 3 December 1836). Marys: this vessel was wrecked on an outlying rock off Carr Rock [Carr Briggs]. Capt. Christie.
Registration: Dundee. Built 1832. 119 tons burthen. Length: 21m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 17.75 W2 34.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (2 March 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Carr Rock is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but may be tentatively equated with one of the Carr Briggs, off Fife Ness.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 March 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 14571
Name : MARYS
Latitude : 561745
Longitude : 23400
Date Built : 1832
Registration : DUNDEE
Type : SCHOONER
Tonnage : 119
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 21
Beam : 6
Loss Day : 3
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1836
Comment : Wrecked on an outlying rock off Carr Rock. Capt. Christie