Stirling Castle: Pettycur, Firth Of Forth
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Stirling Castle: Pettycur, Firth Of Forth
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On Rocks At The W End Of The Bay, Near Kinghorn'; 'near Kirkcaldy'; Kinghorn Ness; Middle Forth Estuary; Stirling Castle
Canmore ID 274277
Site Number NT28NE 8014
NGR NT 270 861
NGR Description NT c. 270 861
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NT28NE 8014 c. 270 861
N56 3.7 W3 10.4
NLO: Pettycur [name: NT 270 861]
Kinghorn [name: NT 272 872]
Kinghorn Ness [name: NT 270 863]
Kirkcaldy [name: NT 281 913].
Not to be confused with NT18SW 8013.
Leith, 11th Dec. Advices of yesterday's date, from Kirkcaldy, state that the STIRLING CASTLE (schr.), Craig, of and from Aberdeen, for Sunderland, ran up the Firth during an E gale and was stranded on rocks at the W end of the bay, near Kinghorn, yesterday morning. [Another account says that there was little prospect of getting the vessel off].
Source: LL, No. 17,056, London, Saturday, December 12 1868.
Kirkcaldy, 11th Dec. The STIRLING CASTLE, Craig, from Aberdeen to Sunderland, in ballast, which stranded near Kinghorn, 8th Dec., is a total wreck: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 17,058, London, Tuesday, December 15 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11542).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 10 December 1868). Stirling Castle: this vessel was lost near Kirkcaldy.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1838. 72grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 7.0 W3 8.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. A location at Pettycur or Kinghorn Ness appears probable for the loss of this vessel.
The date of loss that is cited in the primary account is preferred over that cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 August 2005.
Loss (8 December 1868)
Leith, 11th Dec. Advices of yesterday's date, from Kirkcaldy, state that the STIRLING CASTLE (schr.), Craig, of and from Aberdeen, for Sunderland, ran up the Firth during an E gale and was stranded on rocks at the W end of the bay, near Kinghorn, yesterday morning. [Another account says that there was little prospect of getting the vessel off].
Source: LL, No. 17,056, London, Saturday, December 12 1868.
Kirkcaldy, 11th Dec. The STIRLING CASTLE, Craig, from Aberdeen to Sunderland, in ballast, which stranded near Kinghorn, 8th Dec., is a total wreck: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 17,058, London, Tuesday, December 15 1868.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11542).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 10 December 1868). Stirling Castle: this vessel was lost near Kirkcaldy.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1838. 72grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 7.0 W3 8.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (18 August 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. A location at Pettycur or Kinghorn Ness appears probable for the loss of this vessel.
The date of loss that is cited in the primary account is preferred over that cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 August 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 17152
Name : STIRLING CASTLE
Latitude : 560700
Longitude : 30830
Date Built : 1838
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 72
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 19
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 10
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1868
Comment : Lost near Kirkcaldy.