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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 763818
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/763818
NG14SE 8001 1688 4034
N57 21.9333 W6 42.5667
NLO: Hoe Point [name: NG 165 409]
Lorgill Bay [name: NG 174 409]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
Formerly entered as NG14SE 8514.
17 January 1887. CAROLINE. 14 years of Norway. Wood steamship. 380 ton. 15 crew. Master S. Botner. Owner N.H. Knudsen, Christiansund [Christiansand], Norway. Cadiz to Christiansand. Salt and wine. 15 dead. Wind SSW9. Lorgill Bay, Skye.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1886-87 (1888 [C.5479] XC.735).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1779).
Quality of fix = EDM
Evidence = Echo sounder
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 28
Surveying Details
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16 October 1970. The remains of large iron hoops (part of wreck/wreckage) lie on the beach next to Damsel Rocks - indicating a wreck nearby. The locals report a vessel sinking in this area in mid 1930's. The wreck was located by sub aqua divers during the summer of 1970.
Report by B R Johnson, 7 October 1970.
17 July 1986. A possible wreck was located by a submersible on 29 September 1985 at 57 21 56N, 006 42 34W. Trisponder ranges - from Wiay (h) 30362 metres; from Hairy (m) 4187 metres. Decca = (hebridean) red 1d 12.20 green if 37.60, purple 1a 59.05. The least echosounder depth was 17.9 in a general depth of 28 metres. A scour to the depth of 6 metres was observed. The site was not fully examined.
Report by HMS FOX.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
(Classified as wooden steamship, with cargo of salt and wine: former name cited as Ansgarius, and date of loss as 17 January 1887). Caroline: this vessel was wrecked at Lorgill Bay, and lies in four sections across an area 600 yards in extent. Capt. Botner. (Built 1873?).
Registration: Norwegian. Built 1863. 516grt. Length: 48m. Beam: 9m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 22.17 W6 42.75).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Hoe Point and Lorgill Bay are situated on the exposed SW side of the Duirinish peninsula.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 August 2008.
