Archaeology Notes

Event ID 761240

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR34SE 8001 3695 4456

N55 37.4 W6 10.7333

NLO: Port Ellen [name: NR 363 453]

Caolas Eilean nan Caorach [name centred NR 365 444]

Loch Leodamais [name centred NR 364 450].

Mull of Oa [name: NR 268 414].

Formerly entered as NR34SE 9407 and also as NR35SW 8001 at cited location NR 3157 5350 [N55 34.7 W6 16.3].

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Surveying Details

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24 February 1975. The sailing vessel HAROLD was wrecked at Port Ellen, Islay at 55 37 24N, 006 10 44W.

Report taken from a letter by P L Sellars, dated 11 February 1975.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as Sailing Vessel: no cargo or date of loss specified). Unknown: [no further information].

(Location cited as N55 37.40 W6 10.73).

(Classified as iron [full-rigged] ship, with cargo of coal: former names cited as Hornby Castle and Duncan Coupland, and date of loss as 15 August 1909). Harald: this vessel stranded on [the] Mull of Oa. Capt. Aas.

Registration: Norwegian. Built 1877. 1495grt. Length: 71m. Beam: 11m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 34.72 W6 16.37).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

(Name cited as Harald, Mill [Mull] of Oa)

A124 1 wooden deadeye (from seabed).

NMRS, MS/829/33.

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

A1200 deadeye: from seabed.

NMRS, MS/829/35.

The location assigned to this record remains unverified, but the two entries by Whittaker are equated.

UKHO chart 2168 (1977, amended 1986) notes no wreck at the cited location. [Chart 2474 (inset) is not held].

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 April 2010.