Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694176

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR24SE 27055 41545

Mon [NAT]

OS 1:10,000 map, 1981.

Location formerly entered as NR 2705 4155

Architect: Robert Walker, 1918.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

This monument was erected by the American Red Cross (presumably in the 1920's) to commemorate the losses of the American troopships Turcania (torpedoed off the Mull) [Tuscania: NR14SE 8001] and Otranto (NR16SE 8001) (wrecked at Kilchiaran), both in 1918.

Information from RCAHMS (GPS), 2 October 1991.