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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 767668
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/767668
NM83SE 8001 c. 857 301
N56 24.9 W5 28.5
NLO: Oban [name: NM 860 300]
Oban Bay [name centred NM 854 302]
Firth of Lorn [name centred NM 69 19].
Location formerly cited as NM 8560 3015 [N56 24.8 W5 28.5].
North Pier [NAT] (at NM 8575 3013)
OS 1:10,000 map, 1976.
(Classified as steel paddle steamship: date of loss cited as 13 September 1927). Grenadier: this vessel burnt out at the North Pier, Oban. All gone, but constructive total loss, and broken up.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1885. 372grt. Length: 67m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 24.90 W5 28.45).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Oban Harbour occupies an ill-defined area around NM 856 300. The North Pier (NM83SE 43) iws at NM 85754 30127.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 July 2005.
