Archaeology Notes

Event ID 762576

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/762576

NX13NW 8005 1457 3754

N54 41.9167 W4 52.6667

NLO: Drummore [name: NX 138 368]

Luce Bay [name centred NX 20 45].

Formerly entered as Site no. 8035.

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = UND

Surveying Details

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15 February 1923. The wreck's position is given as 54 41 55N, 004 52 40W and lies in 5.4 metres of water. The wreck is a danger to navigation and is marked by wreck buoy moored about 20 yards SE from the wreck. It is conical shaped, painted green with the word wreck in white letters.

Source: Northern Light House Board Notice to Mariners 1/23.

Hydrographic Office 1995

(Classified as steel motorboat [motor ship], with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 30 August 1922). Mashona: this vessel was abandoned on fire and sank one mile off Drummore.

Registration: Portaferry. Built 1902. 153grt. Length: 30m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N54 41.92 W4 52.67).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location cited by UKHO falls about 1km NE of the end of the East Pier (NX13NW 34.02) at Drummore Harbour.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 October 2009.