St Clair: Roan Bogha, Coll, Passage Of Tiree

NM14NW 8003 c. 123 483

N56 32.3 W6 40.8

NLO: Roan Bogha [name: NM 123 483]

Gunna Sound [name centred NM 092 504]

Coll [name centred NM 20 57]

Tiree [name centred NM 00 45].

Formerly entered as NM04NE 8002 and NM04NE 9180 at cited location NM 0909 4887 (N56 32.5 W6 44).

Cross Ref: NM04NE 8001 HURLFORD

Cross Ref: NM04NE 8000 UNKNOWN

See also NM14NW 8001.

22 October 1880, ST CLAIR, 4 yrs old, of Glasgow, iron steamship, 67 tons, 12 crew, Master A. McCullum, Owner A. Ross, Glasgow, departed Glasgow for N. Uist, carrying general cargo and 10 passengers, wind ENE4, stranded, total loss, on a sunken rock called Roan Bogha, off Gunna Sound, Argyleshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3044).

ST CLAIR. Last Saturday night (23 October 1880), on a voyage from Tiree to Barra, stuck on a rock marked with a buoy, and sank in 15 minutes in deep water. The crew had barely enough time to escape in the boats and only had the clothes they had on.

[Sank near Tiree - area not specific].

Source: Oban Times, 30 October 1880

Tobermory, Oct. 25, 8.20 a.m., SAINT CLAIR (s), Maccallum, struck a buoyed rock south end of Coll Island, and sank: crew saved. Topmast seen at high water.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,748, London, Tuesday October 26 1880.

Tobermory, Oct. 28, ST. CLAIR (s), reported by telegraph, Oct. 25, as having sunk after striking on a rock, steamed some distance after striking and went down in deep water. No part of her to be seen above water: even at low tide.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,753, London, Monday November 1 [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5010).

Quality of fix = PD

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Surveying Details

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28 May 1932. The ST CLAIR is 1 of 3 wrecks supposed to lie in Gunna Sound at 56 32 30N, 006 44 00W approximately.

Source; authority not stated.

See also HURLFORD and a nearby UNKNOWN.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as iron steamship, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 22 October 1880). St Clair: this vessel stranded on Roan Bogha, Gunna Sound, and sank near by. Capt. McCallum.

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1876. 134grt. Length: 26m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 32.4 W6 40.17).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Roan Bogha is depicted by the Hydrographic Office at N56 32.38 W6 40.1, SE of Gunna Sound, where it 'Just dries'. There is a buoy immediately to the S.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 April 2008.

HO chart 2171 (1977, amended to 1991).