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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.

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