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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 826243
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/826243
NW96SE 8005 9642 6138
N54 54.3333 W5 10.5
NLO: Salt Pans Bay [name: NW 964 614]
Larbrax [name: NW 976 604].
Formerly entered as NW96SE 8083.
7 February 1895, CHINDWIN, 8 years, of Fleetwood. Lloyds +100A1 survey 7/92. Iron steam trawler. 59 ton. 9 men. Master T. Glanton, owner G. Beeching, Fleetwood. Fleetwood to fishing. Ballast. Wind SE11. Pan Bay, Wigtownshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1894-95 (1896 [C.8247] LXXV.489).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1095).
Quality of fix = E
Horizontal Datum = OGB
Surveying Details
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The boiler of this wreck shows at low water about 90 metres from shore at 54 54 20N, 005 10 30W.
Report by P. C. Miller 6 November 1982.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
(Classified as iron steam trawler, with cargo of fish: registration number cited as H 34 and date of loss as 7 February 1895). Chidwin (Chindwin?): this vessel stranded at Pan Bay [Salt Pans Bay]. Capt. Glanton. (Fleetwood registered?).
Registration: Hull. Built 1887. 59nrt. Length: 30m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N54 54.00 W5 10.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The form of the vessel's name that is cited in the primary account is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 June 2009.
