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Balder: Inch, Alloa, River Forth

Lighter (20th Century)

Site Name Balder: Inch, Alloa, River Forth

Classification Lighter (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Alloa Inch; Balder

Canmore ID 289302

Site Number NS89SE 8016

NGR NS 871 918

NGR Description NS c. 871 918

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Clackmannan
  • Parish Maritime - Clackmannan
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NS89SE 8016 c. 871 918

N56 6.3 W3 48.9

NLO: [Alloa] Inch [name: NS 871 918].

See also NS89SE 8016.

(Classified as wooden lighter: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 26 January 1926). Balder: this vessel stranded (?) at Alloa Inch, and was abandoned.

Registration: Alloa. Built 1867. 204grt. Length: 34m. Beam: 8m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 6.5 W3 48.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The loss may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Falkirk.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 June 2007.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 17721

Name : BALDER

Latitude : 560630

Longitude : 34800

Date Built : 1867

Registration : ALLOA

Type : LIGHTER (WOOD)

Tonnage : 204

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 34

Beam : 8

Loss Day : 26

Loss Month : 1

Loss Year : 1926

Comment : Stranded (?) at Alloa Inch and abandoned.

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