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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

Archaeology Notes

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.

Activities

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.

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