Reference

Date 1996

Event ID 640462

Category Documentary Reference

Type Reference

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/640462

(Location cited as N36 30.19 W5 41.95: no part of the restricted area with a radius of 50m is above HWMOST).

(Original designation order: 1974, no. 6: 1974/458, dated 11 April 1974).

(Redesignated: 1992, no. 2; 1992/1229, S. 123, dated 25 June 1992).

The Dartmouth, a small frigate or fifth rate, was built in 1655 and refitted in 1678. Her long workman-like life came to an end in 1690 during a punitive campaign in the Sound of Mull. A storm drove her from anchorage and ashore on Eilean Rudha an Ridire, one of the rocky islands in the Sound, on 9 October 1690.

Discovered in 1973 by divers from Bristol, parts of the site were jointly investigated by them and the St Andrews Institute of Maritime Archaeology.

The site was re-designated in 1992 to prevent further damage from the uncontrolled activities of sport divers.

NMRS, MS/829/11.