Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Thistle: Goat Island, Small Isles Bay, Jura, Atlantic
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Thistle: Goat Island, Small Isles Bay, Jura, Atlantic
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Small Isles Of Jura; Sound Of Jura; Thistle
Canmore ID 285377
Site Number NR56NW 8014
NGR NR 54 68
NGR Description NR c. 54 68
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285377
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NR56NW 8014 c. 54 68
N55 51 W5 56
NLO: Jura [name centred NR 54 82]
Sound of Jura [name centred NR 64 78]
Small Isles of Jura [name centred NR 546 679].
Glasgow, 4th Feb. The THISTLE (sloop), of Inverness, from Liverpool to Stirling, with salt, in working out of Small Isles Bay, 1st Feb., missed stays, and was totally wrecked on Goat Island: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,545, London, Friday, February 5 1864,
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10551).
(Classified as wooden sloop, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 1 February 1864). Thistle: this vessel was wrecked on Goat Island, Small Isles Bay.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1827. 47grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 52.0 W5 55.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Goat Island is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 December 2006.
Loss (1 February 1864)
Glasgow, 4th Feb. The THISTLE (sloop), of Inverness, from Liverpool to Stirling, with salt, in working out of Small Isles Bay, 1st Feb., missed stays, and was totally wrecked on Goat Island: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,545, London, Friday, February 5 1864,
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10551).
(Classified as wooden sloop, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 1 February 1864). Thistle: this vessel was wrecked on Goat Island, Small Isles Bay.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1827. 47grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 52.0 W5 55.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (21 December 2006)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Goat Island is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 December 2006.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11432
Name : THISTLE
Latitude : 555200
Longitude : 55500
Date Built : 1827
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SLOOP (WOOD)
Tonnage : 47
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 16
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 1
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1864
Comment : Wrecked on Goat Island, Small Isles Bay.
Cargo : SALT
