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