Archaeology Notes

Event ID 820331

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR72SE 8002 7743 2341

N55 27.21 W5 31.23

NLO: Kilbrannan Sound [name centred NR 83 40]

Campbeltown [name: NR 720 204]

Island Davaar [name: NR 760 202].

24 March 1890. GLENHEAD. 3 years of Glasgow. Iron steamship. 34 ton. 4 men. Master W. McCulloch. Owner J.P. Turnbull, Glasgow. Glasgow to Campbeltown. Coal. Wind SE4. 1 mile NE of Dunbar lighthouse.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1889-90 (1890-91 [C.6468] LXXVI.485).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1496).

(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 24 March 1890). Glenhead: this vessel foundered 1 mile NE of Devaar [Davaar] Light. Capt. McCulloch.

Registration: Glasgow, Built 1887. 53grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 27.20 W5 31.17).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

A3525 1 compass: from seabed.

(No accurate location cited).

NMRS, MS/829/35.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Otterand or Otterard Rock is not noted on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. Davaar (island) Lighthouse (NR72SE 13) is at NR 76078 20614.

No detailed description is apparently available for this wreck, and its equation with the recorded loss of the Glenhead remains unverified, but is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 June 2002.