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Competitor: Barns Ness, Firth Of Forth

Schooner (19th Century)

Site Name Competitor: Barns Ness, Firth Of Forth

Classification Schooner (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Dunbar; Outer Forth Estuary; Competitor

Canmore ID 275801

Site Number NT77NW 8058

NGR NT 72 77

NGR Description NT c. 72 77

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council East Lothian
  • Parish Maritime - East Lothian
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NT77NW 8058 c. 72 77

N55 59 W2 27

Possibly on map sheet NT67NE.

NLO: Aberlady Bay [name centred NT 457 808]

Dunbar [name: NT 678 790]

Barns Ness [name: NT 723 772].

Formerly entered as NT48SW 8017 (unlocated).

Dunbar, 8th Oct. The COMPETITOR, of Kincardine, Fotheringham, from Hartlepool to Cronstadt [Saint Petersburg, Russia], was stranded this morning 3 miles East of this place, having sprung a leak in a heavy gale from ENE.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,094, London, Tuesday October 9 1849.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8519).

(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 1849). Competitor: this vessel was lost in Aberlady Bay.

Registration: Leith. Bult 1845. 75 tons burthern. Length: 18m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 1.5 W2 52.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

A location near Barns Ness may be tentatively assigned to the loss of this vessel; that cited by Whittaker remains unverified, and cannot be reconciled with the earlier account. The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 October 2005.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 17729

Name : COMPETITOR

Latitude : 560130

Longitude : 25200

Date Built : 1845

Registration : LEITH

Type : SCHOONER

Tonnage : 75

Tonnage Code : B

Length : 18

Beam : 5

Loss Year : 1849

Comment : Lost in Aberlady Bay.

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