Archaeology Notes
Event ID 760441
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/760441
NS16NE 8002 1873 6974
N55 53.2 W4 53.9167
NLO: Wemyss Point [name: NS 198 701]
Skelmorlie [name: NS 192 675].
Formerly entered as Site no. 9375.
(Transits illustrated).
G Ridley 1984.
Quality of fix = EDM
Evidence = Echo sounder
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 38
Orientation of keel/wreck = 100280
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The steamship KINTYRE sank following a collision with the SS MAORI. The KINTYRE had an iron hull, a single funnel and 2 masts, and was launched on 10 June 1868.
Report by P Moir, 3 August 1980.
Surveying Details
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The wreck's position is given as 55 53 42N, 004 54 54W by D Mcentee,
28 April 1982. The wreck was located in the approximate listed position in a general depth of 40 metres. It lies, with the hull virtually intact and some superstructure aft of the forward hold, on a steep sandy slope. The bow is shoalest part, where the divers gauge depth was 36 metres.
Report by P J Moir, 21 April 1982.
18 February 1987. The site was examined on 29 June 1986 at 55 53 12N, 004 53 55W. The least echosounder depth was 34 in a general depth of 33 to 43 metres. No scouring was observed. The side scan sonar indicated a height of 4 metres, and length of 50 metres (164 feet). The vessel is lying on a orientation of 100/280 degrees, and is upright on a steeply sloping seabed.
Report by HMS HECLA.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
(Classified as iron steamship, in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 September 1907). Kintyre: this vessel was in collision and sank off 100 yds offshore, opposite Wemyss Point (Maori). Capt. McKechnie.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1868. 314grt. Length: 55m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 53.2 W4 53.97).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):
A1331 telegraph top, kettle, gauge, porthole: from seabed
A2789 flange and pipe, wooden ladder and rungs: from seabed
A3063 'oiler'.
NMRS, MS/829/35.
