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Hercules: Firth Of Forth

Craft (18th Century)

Site Name Hercules: Firth Of Forth

Classification Craft (18th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'Ne Of Kinghorn'; Outer Forth Estuary

Canmore ID 315577

Site Number NT28NE 8023

NGR NT 27 87

NGR Description NT c. 27 87

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

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

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Loss (18 April 1793)

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 18 April 1793). Hercules: [this vessel] left Dysart for Leith two weeks after [her] launch and [was] wrecked East [NE] of Kinghorn.

Built 1793. 400 tons burthern.

(Location of loss cited as N56 4.50 W3 9.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Named Location (Nlo) (20 February 2012)

NLO: Kinghorn [name: NT 272 872].

Note (20 February 2012)

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.

This vessel evidently stranded.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 February 2012.

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