Archaeology Notes
Event ID 757066
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NR44NW 8006 c. 404 453
N55 37.9 W6 7.5
NLO: Lagavulin Bay [name centred NR 403 455].
Location formerly entered as NR c. 42 45 [N55 38 W6 6]. Also formerly entered as NR44SW 8001 and NR44SW 9122 at cited location NR 4157 4475 [N55 37.65 W6 6.35] and as NR44SW 8003 at cited location NR 4330 4461 [N55 37.6 W6 4.7].
SERB, sank at the entrance to Lagavulin on 4 December 1925, with a cargo of barley. The vessel is a total loss. Wreck sold for ?20 and ?15 for cargo.
Source: Glasgow University Business Archives, UGD95/1/4 Glasgow Salvage Association, minutes 7 January 1926.
Horizontal Datum = OGB
Surveying Details
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24 February 1975. A small steamship, the SERB, was reported wrecked on Goill Rock, Islay in 55 37 39N, 006 06 21W. It was probably a Clyde puffer.
Report by P L Sellars, 11 February 1975
Hydrographic Office 1995.
(Classified as steel steamship, with cargo of barley: date of loss cited as 4 December 1925). Serb: this vessel sank at the entrance to Lagavoulin [Lagavulin].
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1916. 95grt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 37.65 W6 6.35).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, and the loss of this this vessel may have occurred within the area of map sheet NR44SW. Goill Rock is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the 1:50,000 map, but is probably to be identified with one of the rocks or stacks around Iseanach Mor [name: NR 422 455]. This would be consistent with the location suggested by Whittaker, who places the loss 'at the entrance to Lagavoulin'.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 May 2002.
(Re-entered at cited location NR c. 404 453 [N55 37.9 W6 7.5]). Per contra the above, a location of loss is tentatively suggested within the area of the rocks and skerries at the entrance (from the S) into Lagavulin Bay.
The nature of the cargo of this vessel suggests that she was heading for Lagavulin Distillery (NR44NW 42.00), which is centred at NR 4043 4572.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 April 2010.
