Archaeology Notes

Event ID 771272

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM74SW 8003 7234 4064

N56 30.1 W5 41.9

NLO: Eilean Rubha an Ridire [name: NM 725 405]

Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46].

Formerly entered as NM74SW 8580.

Cross ref:

NM74SW 8006 ARDFERN

NM74SW 8008 RIVER TAY

For associated vessel (River Tay) under salvage, see NM74SW 8008.

For further vessel (possibly to be equated with the River Tay) under Ballista, see NM74SW 8014.

BALLISTA, is fairly intact and upright in 8 metres depth. She lies on top of 2 other wrecks, one of which may be the drifter ARDFERN.

[Source includes a location sketch plan].

Source: Butland & Siedlecki, BSAC Wreck Register 1987.

(Classified as a fishing vessel).

G Ridley 1990.

(Classified as iron steamship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 6 February 1973). Ballista: this vessel was driven ashore in a storm while recovering coal jettisoned from a stranded vessel [River Tay: NM74SW 8008].

Registration: British. Built 1939.

(Location of loss cited as N56 30.17 W5 41.98).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

A4566 1 porthole.

NMRS, MS/829/77.

What is apparently this wreck is charted as dangerous to navigation immediately S of the Eileanan Rubha an Ridire. The charted depth is indicated as being between 12m and 18m, and there is a shelly seabed nearby.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 April 2008.

UKHO chart no. 2390 (1976, amended 1991).