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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 645490
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/645490
NG44SE 8003 unlocated
NLO: Loch Portree [name centred NG 484 424]
Portree [name: NG 483 437]
Sound of Raasay [name centred NG 55 55]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
(Classified as wooden smack: no cargo specified, but registration number cited as INS 2868, and date of loss as 1901). Isabella & James: this vessel was lost near Portree, circa 1901. Capt. Sutherland. (Circa February 1906).
Registration: Inverness. Built 1871. 25grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 25.0 W6 10.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location map sheet to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
It remains uncertain whether this vessel foundered or stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 August 2008.
