Dorris: Carr Brigs, Fife Ness, Firth Of Forth
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Dorris: Carr Brigs, Fife Ness, Firth Of Forth
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Doris; 'upon The Carn Rock'; North Carr Rocks; Carr Briggs; Outer Forth Estuary; Outer Tay Estuary; Firth Of Forth; Firth Of Tay
Canmore ID 275592
Site Number NO61SW 8056
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 8056 c. 645 113
N56 17.6 W2 34.5
NLO: Carr Brigs [name: NO 645 113]
Fife Ness [name: NO 638 098]
North Carr Beacon [name: NO 647 115].
See also NO60NE 8011.
Location formerly entered as NO c. 647 115 [N56 17.7 W2 34.2].
Leith, 18th Dec. 'A foreign vessel is supposed to have been wrecked upon the Carn Rock [Carr Rocks], several wainscot logs, marked MK, having come on shore on the East Coast of Fife, with a great quantity of lathwood, and the stern of a boat, marked 'DORRIS, Barth.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9602, London, Friday December 20 1844.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7909).
(No classification specified: cargo cited as lathwood, and date of loss as 18 December 1844). Dorris: this vessel was presumed wrecked on the Carr Rocks. Small boat and wreckage on the East Fife coast.
Registration: Barth.
(Location of loss cited as N56 17.75 W2 34.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The subsequent discovery of wreckage (apparently from this vessel) on the coast of Fife is entered as NO60NE 8011.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 August 2010.
Loss (18 December 1844)
Leith, 18th Dec. 'A foreign vessel is supposed to have been wrecked upon the Carn Rock [Carr Rocks], several wainscot logs, marked MK, having come on shore on the East Coast of Fife, with a great quantity of lathwood, and the stern of a boat, marked 'DORRIS, Barth.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 9602, London, Friday December 20 1844.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7909).
(No classification specified: cargo cited as lathwood, and date of loss as 18 December 1844). Dorris: this vessel was presumed wrecked on the Carr Rocks. Small boat and wreckage on the East Fife coast.
Registration: Barth.
(Location of loss cited as N56 17.75 W2 34.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.