Archaeology Notes
Event ID 831146
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/831146
NR83NW 8005 c. 815 362
N55 34.2 W5 28.0
NLO: Carradale [name: NR 813 383]
Carradale Bay [name centred NR 809 369]
Carradale Point [name: NR 815 362]
Kilbrannan Sound [name centred NR 83 40].
Not to be confused with the 1897 loss of the same name nearby, for which see NR83NW 8006.
9th September 1859, GRACE DARLING, 17 yrs old, sloop, 19 tons, 2 crew, carrying coals, stranded, total loss, 2 lives lost, wind SW10, Carradale Bay, Cantire [Kintyre], Argyllshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1859 (1860 [2623] LX.501).
Glasgow, 13th Sept.. The GRACE DARLING, of Rothesay, with coals, was wrecked on the rocks of Carradale Point, Kintyre, 8th Sept.: two men and a boy are supposed to have perished. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2031).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 13 September 1859). Grace Darling: this vessel stranded at Carradale Point. Capt. Lusk.
Registration: Greenock. Built 1842. 19 tons burthern. Length: 11m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 34.50 W5 28.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 July 2002.