Unknown: Billow Ness, Pittenweem, Firth Of Forth
Yawl (20th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Billow Ness, Pittenweem, Firth Of Forth
Classification Yawl (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ml 247; Billowness; Anstruther; Outer Forth Estuary; Unknown 1933
Canmore ID 306485
Site Number NO50SE 8051
NGR NO 562 027
NGR Description NO c. 562 027
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Fife
- Parish Maritime - Fife
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NO50SE 8051 c. 562 027
N56 12.9 W2 42.4
NLO: Billow Ness [name: NO 562 027]
Anstruther Wester [name: NO 565 035]
Anstruther Easter [name: NO 575 036]
Pittenweem [name: NO 549 025].
(Classified as yawl: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 4 March 1933). Unknown: this vessel was wrecked at Billowness [Billow Ness].
(Location of loss cited as N56 13.00 W2 42.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 September 2010.
Loss (4 March 1933)
(Classified as yawl: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 4 March 1933). Unknown: this vessel was wrecked at Billowness [Billow Ness].
(Location of loss cited as N56 13.00 W2 42.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (22 September 2010)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 September 2010.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 14886
Name : UNKNOWN 1933
Latitude : 561300
Longitude : 24200
Type : YAWL
Loss Day : 4
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1933
Comment : Wrecked at Billowness.