Archaeology Notes

Event ID 729137

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS06NW 8002 c. 03 65

N55 50 W5 9

NLO: Ettrick Bay [name: NS 034 656]

Kyles of Bute [name centred NS 040 730].

Possibly on map sheet NS06SW.

Formerly entered as NS06SW 8003 at cited location NS 0375 6460 (N55 50.08 W5 8.05).

28 December 1882, ISABELLA, 49 yrs old, of Aberdeen, wooden smack, 42 tons, 2 crew, Master J. McCorquodale, jun., Owner J. McCorquodale, Port Ramsey, Lismore, Argyllshire, departed Ballachulish, Argyllshire, for Bowling, carrying slates, wind W6, stranded, total loss, Ettrick Bay, Bute.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3333).

(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of slates: date of loss cited as 28 December 1882). Isabella: this vessel stranded in Ettrick Bay, Bute. Capt. McCorquodale.

Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1834. 42grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 51.0 W5 9.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 June 2002.