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Prince Regent: Battery Quarry, North Queensferry, Firth Of Forth

Sloop (19th Century)

Site Name Prince Regent: Battery Quarry, North Queensferry, Firth Of Forth

Classification Sloop (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Inverkeithing Bay; Middle Forth Estuary; Prince Regent

Canmore ID 286281

Site Number NT18SW 8049

NGR NT 133 803

NGR Description NT c. 133 803

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Fife
  • Parish Maritime - Fife
  • Former Region Fife
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NT18SW 8049 c. 133 803

N56 0.5 W3 23.4

NLO: Inverkeithing [name: NT 131 826]

North Queensferry [name: NT 132 804]

Inverkeithing Bay [name centred NT 141 816].

N. Queensferry, 31st Dec. The PRINCE REGENT (sloop), of Alloa, Cram, in ballast, drove on the rocks at Battery Quarry, last night, and has become a total wreck: crew saved.

Source: LL, No. 16,450, London, Wednesday, January 2 1867.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11161).

(Classified as sloop, in ballast: date of loss cited as 30 December 1866). Prince Regent: this vessel was wrecked at Battery Quarry, North Queensferry. Capt. Cram.

Registration: Alloa. Built 1846. 32 tons burthern. Length: 13m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 0.42 W3 23.33).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Battery Quarry (NT18SW 346) is at NT 1337 8030.

The name Battery Point is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but apparently applies to the prominent (and eminently defensive) headland around NT 133 807, at the northern end of the Forth Rail Bridge (NT17NW 70).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 February 2007.

Activities

Loss (30 December 1866)

N. Queensferry, 31st Dec. The PRINCE REGENT (sloop), of Alloa, Cram, in ballast, drove on the rocks at Battery Quarry, last night, and has become a total wreck: crew saved.

Source: LL, No. 16,450, London, Wednesday, January 2 1867.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11161).

(Classified as sloop, in ballast: date of loss cited as 30 December 1866). Prince Regent: this vessel was wrecked at Battery Quarry, North Queensferry. Capt. Cram.

Registration: Alloa. Built 1846. 32 tons burthern. Length: 13m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 0.42 W3 23.33).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (9 February 2007)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Battery Quarry (NT18SW 346) is at NT 1337 8030.

The name Battery Point is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but apparently applies to the prominent (and eminently defensive) headland around NT 133 807, at the northern end of the Forth Rail Bridge (NT17NW 70).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 February 2007.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 7675

Name : PRINCE REGENT

Latitude : 560025

Longitude : 32320

Date Built : 1846

Registration : ALLOA

Type : SLOOP

Tonnage : 32

Tonnage Code : B

Length : 13

Beam : 4

Loss Day : 30

Loss Month : 12

Loss Year : 1866

Comment : Wrecked at Battery Quarry, North Queensferry. Capt. Cram

Cargo : BALLAST

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