Loss

Date 27 March 1823

Event ID 588737

Category Documentary Reference

Type Loss

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/588737

Bowmore, Isle of Islay, 27th March. 'The ACTIVE of Islay, McDougall, from Coleraine to Tobermory, is lost in Lagavuillin Harbour, about 14 miles south of this place, with all her cargo except about four bolls of meal.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5792, London, Tuesday April 8 1823.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6310).

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 27 March 1823). Active: this vessel was lost at Lagavuillin [Lagavulin, Islay] Harbour, 14 miles South of Bowmore. Capt. McDougall.

Registration: Campbeltown. Built 1818. 29 tons burthern.

(Location of loss cited as N55 38.00 W6 8.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.