Archaeology Notes
Event ID 759254
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NR44NE 8001 4589 4694
N55 38.9667 W6 2.3667
NLO: Ardmore Point [name: NR 475 507]
Eilean a' Chuirn [name: NM 473 489]
Eilean Bhride [name: NM 460 478]
Sound of Islay [name centred NR 43 71]
Islay [name centred NR 38 60].
Formerly entered as Site no. 9118.
Not to be confused with the wreck of the same name at NM 5955 4736 (N56 33.4 W5 54.8) in the Sound of Mull, for which see NM54NE 8004.
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 15
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The SHUNA was wrecked near Ardmore Point, Islay. The vessel, built in 1915 was owned at time of loss by Clydeside Ship Owners Co.
Source: letter from P L Sellars, 11 February 1975.
Surveying Details
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25 February 1975. The vessel was wrecked near Ardmore Point, Islay, at 55 38 58N, 006 02 22W. The machinery salvaged. The stern is intact, but the remainder has broken up. The seabed depth is about 15.2 metres, alongside a reef, and there is some wreckage on the reef.
Report by P L Sellars 11 February 1975.
NB: The site is not to be confused with another SHUNA lost nearby on 9 May 1913.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
(Classified as iron steamship, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 17 October 1936). Shuna: this vessel was wrecked on Eilean Bhride, near Ardmore Point.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1915. 1494grt. Length: 76m. Beam: 11m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 39.00 W6 2.25).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):
A149 A porthole ring and light (12ins diameter: glass intact).
[Location cited as Shuna, Ceann Naw Sgeirean, Islay].
NMRS, MS/829/33.
Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):
A2949 1 perfume bottle: from seabed.
NMRS, MS/829/35.
The cited location remains unverified, but is accepted.
The photograph published by Whittaker depicts a typical general cargo steamship of the period.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 March 2010.
