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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 858338

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/858338

NM21NW 8001 c. 245 193

N56 17.2 W6 27.1

NLO: Soa Island [name: NM 245 193]

Iona [name: NM 27 24]

Torran Rocks [name centred NM 28 13]

Tiree [name centred NM 00 45].

Formerly entered as Site no. 1 at cited location NM 2420 1920 [N56 17 W6 27.4].

Possibly on map shhets NM21NE, or NM21SE.

CATHCART PARK ran on to 'Sheep Island', one of the Torran Rocks near Iona on the morning of Monday last week (15 April 1912). Cargo of salt from Runcorn in Lancashire to Wick. The 11 crew escaped in two boats. Forepart seriously damaged

Source: Oban Times, April 1912.

(Classified as steel steamship, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 15 April 1912). Cathcratpark [Cathcart Park]; this vessel stranded on Sheep Rock , Torran Rocks.

Registration: Greenock. Built 1897. 840grt. Length: 63m. Beam: 9m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 14.0 W6 23.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Sheep Island is presumably to be equated with Soa Island, which is situated to the W of the end of the Ross of Mull and to the NW of the widely-dispersed Torran Rocks.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 May 2008.

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