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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 783990
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/783990
NR25NE 8012 unlocated
NLO: Loch Indaal [name centred NR 26 57].
Possibly on map sheets NR26SE, NR35NW, or NR36SW.
Formerly entered as Craft.
The HIBERNIA, from Londonderry to Philadelphia, was lost at Lochindaht [Lochindaal], Island of Isla [Islay], 7th inst.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4295, London, Tuesday October 25 1808.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5616).
(Classified as [full-rigged] ship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 7 October 1808). Hibernia: this vessel was lost at the entrance to Lochindaal [Loch Indaal]. Capt. James. All gone October 1809. Constructive total loss or repair?
Registration: Londonderry.
(Location of loss cited as N55 45 W6 20).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 August 2002.
