Archaeology Notes

Event ID 763200

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS15SW 8053 (Formerly NS14NW 8001) 1442 4990

N55 42.42 W4 57.24

NLO: Gull Point [name: NS 146 502]

Little Cumbrae Island [name: NS 145 515].

Location formerly entered as NS 144 499 [N55 42.42 W4 47.47].

LADY ISABELLA, is known to divers as 'the orange boat'.

[Source includes sketch plan of location].

Source: Butland & Siedlecki, BSAC Wreck Register 1987.

(Classified as iron barque, with cargo of nickel ore: date of loss cited as 18 December 1902). Lady Isabella: this vessel stranded on Little Cumbrae, 300 yds NW of Gull Point. Capt. McKinlay. (Built 1892?)

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1882. 1520grt. Length: 78m. Beam: 12m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 42.70 W4 57.40).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Location cited as N55 42.42 W57.24 [NS 1442 4990]). Lady Isabella: this iron barque of 1396nrt was launched in August 1882 and sank in December 1902. The location of sinking lies 200m NW of Gull Point, Little Cumbrae, and about 50m from the shore on a sloping seabed of sand and rock. Large portions of hull stand about 1.5m high in between 7m and 15m depth of water, but may be difficult to discern beneath a covering of marine wildlife.

Information from Mr J Nicolson, 13 March 2007.

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