Archaeology Notes

Event ID 810573

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG72SE 8003 c. 79 22

N57 14 W5 40

NLO: Kyle Rhea [name centred NG 795 225]

Glenelg Bay [name: NG 803 198]

Glenelg [name: NG 812 912]

Loch Alsh [name centred NG 80 25]

Skye [name centred NG 45 35].

Possibly on map sheet NG71NE, or NG82SW.

Kyle Rhea, Skye, 22nd Oct., the WILLIAM AKINS (brigtne.), of Belfast (Off. No. 36,244), Haggen, from Scrabster to the Clyde, with pavement, got becalmed in the sound here, 18th Oct., and drifted on the rocks North of the ferry, where she remains, with the tide flowing in and out of her: the sails, stores, and running gear, have been landed, and if the weather keep moderate the cargo may be all saved. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3848).

(Classified as brigantine, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 18 October 1872). William Akins: this vessel stranded on rocks North of the ferry at Kyleakin. Capt. Haggan. ON: 36,244.

Registration: Belfast.

(Location of loss cited as N57 17.0 W5 44.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. That indicated by Whittaker (at Kyleakin) is at variance with that cited in the primary account (Kylerhea). The latter is preferred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 May 2004.