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