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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 702730
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/702730
NG37SE 8001 c. 371 709
N57 39.1 W6 24.4
NLO: Camas Mor [name centred NG 371 709]
Loch Snizort [name centred NG 32 61]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
(Classified as wooden steamship, with cargo of empty barrels: date of loss cited as 24 November 1919). Cygonie: this vessel was wrecked at Camus More [Camas Mor], Point of Rhu, Skye.
Registration: Granton. Built 1904. 80grt. Length: 27m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 39.00 W6 24.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. That of Point of Rhu cannot be determined from the avalaible map evidence, but the name may apply to Rubha Hunish [name: NG 407 770], the northernmost point of Skye.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 July 2008.
