Archaeology Notes

Event ID 831149

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NL94NW 8044 unlocated

NLO: Skerryvore [name: NL 840 263]

Tiree [name centred NM 00 45].

See also NF83NE 8001 and NF84NW 8005.

CONFIDENCE, 1834, 150 ton, of Dundee, from Port Glasgow, cotton goods.

Source: PP Return of all shipwrecks on the Skerrynore Rock near the island of Tiree or within 20 miles from 1st January 1801.

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 631).

Greenock, 15th March. 'The CHARLOTTE KERR, McLean, from the Clyde to Cape de Verd and Grenada, was driven on shore on Killifides, South Uist, 6th instant. Crew saved. The CONFIDENCE, Wesley, from the Clyde to Hayti, was driven on a reef of rocks at Tiree, 7th inst., having previously lost her rudder and mainmast, and the following day broke up.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6932, London, Tuesday March 11 1834.

Mull, 15th March. 'Part of the cargo of the CONFIDENCE, Wesley, from the Clyde to Hayti, wrecked on the Island of Tyree, has been saved, and a part has since been washed on shore on the Island of Col [Coll].'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6936, London, Tuesday March 25 1834.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6930).

(Classified as Brigantine, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 7 March 1834). Confidence: this vessel was wrecked on rocks to the West of Tiree. Capt. Wesley.

Registration: Dundee. Built 1828. 150 tons burthern. Length: 24m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 31.5 W7 1.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, as the available evidence does not specifically place the loss on Skerryvore. Skerryvore Lighthouse (NL82NW 1) is at NL 8384 2629.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 September 2005.