Archaeology Notes

Event ID 664148

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS17NE 8007 1856 7630

N55 56.73 W4 54.35

NLO: Dunoon [name: NS 175 767]

The Gantocks [name: NS 178 758]

Cloch Point [name: NS 202 758].

Formerly entered as Site no's 8002 and 9388 at cited location NS 1778 5770 [N55 56.73 W4 54.35]: incorrect conversion of NGR.

(Transits illustrated).

G Ridley 1984.

AKKA stands 18 metres above the bottom. She is popular with fishermen and draped in nets which present a hazard to divers. Magnetic bearings from the wreck: Cloch Light 112 deg, Dunoon Tower 281 deg, Gantock Light 251 deg, Dunoon spire 302 deg.

Source: Butland & Siedlecki, BSAC Wreck Register 1987.

The 17 foot four-bladed propeller was raised from Dunoon Bank in the Clyde by sports divers.

NMRS, MS/5461 (Diver 1989).

(Classified as motor vessel, with cargo of iron ore: date of loss cited as 9 April 1956). Akka: this vessel stranded on the Gantocks, slipped off and sank. Capt. Sundin.

Registration: Stockholm. Built 1942. 5409grt. Length: 148m. Beam: 17m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 56.70 W4 54.35).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

A060 1 gold ring, bearing letters 'R' and 'B' (from seabed).

NMRS, MS/829/30 and MS/829/32.

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

A1712 toilet roll holder, 5 plates: from seabed

A2790 1 valve and handle: from seabed

A3218 1 compass binnacle, in several pieces and poor condition: from seabed

A3343 12 plates, 1 key, 1 fork: from seabed

A3513 1 porthole: from seabed.

NMRS, MS/829/35.