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Aberdeen: Firth Of Forth

Smack (19th Century)

Site Name Aberdeen: Firth Of Forth

Classification Smack (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'On Rocks Off Kinghorn'; Outer Forth Estuary; Aberdeen

Canmore ID 315723

Site Number NT28NE 8025

NGR NT 27 86

NGR Description NT c. 27 86

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

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Loss (1 January 1801 - 31 December 1801)

(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 1801). Aberdeen: [this vessel was] wrecked on rocks off Kinghorn, Fife.

Registration: British.

(Location of loss cited as N56 4.00 W3 10.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 5599

Name : ABERDEEN

Latitude : 560400

Longitude : 31000

Registration : BRITISH

Type : SMACK

Loss Year : 1801

Comment : Wrecked on rocks off Kinghorn, Fife

Named Location (Nlo) (28 February 2012)

NLO: Kinghorn [name: NT 272 872].

Note (28 February 2012)

(Location entered as NT c. 27 86 [N56 4 W3 10]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The vessel evidently stranded on one or other of the several offshore skerries that lie within OS 1-km square NT 27 86.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 February 2012.

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