Archaeology Notes

Event ID 767983

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR72NE 8002 7776 2674

N55 29.03 W5 31.06

NLO: Black Bay [name: NR 787 266]

Kilbrannan Sound [name centred NR 83 40]

Campbeltown [name: NR 720 204].

(Classified as steel steamship: no cargo specified, but former names cited as Colonial, Assyria and Ypiranga, and date of loss as 19 September 1950). Bisco 9: this vessel broke from tow on route to breaking up, and was wrecked four miles North of Campbeltown.

Registration: Bermuda. Built 1908. 8371grt. Length: 137m. Beam: 17m.

(Location cited as N55 29.03 W5 31.07).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record remains unverified.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 January 2003.

NR 7776 2674 Site identified as part of a coastal zone assessment survey.

M Cressey and S Badger 2005.