Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Upcoming Maintenance
Please be advised that this website will undergo scheduled maintenance on the following dates:
Thursday, 30 January: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
During these times, some functionality such as image purchasing may be temporarily unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Archaeology Notes
Event ID 831156
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/831156
NG74SW 8004 unlocated
NLO: Applecross [name: NG 711 445]
Loch Torridon [name centred NG 76 59]
Inner Sound [name centred NG 64 40].
Formerly entered as NG76SW 8004 (unlocated).
2 November 1853, ARVON, of Caernarvon, Newcastle to Galway, foundered, North coast of Applecross, Rosshire, after striking a sunken rock. Crew saved. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1853 (1854 (337) XLII.647).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 467).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo cited but date of loss cited as 2 November 1853). This vessel 'foundered' [sic.] on the N coast of Applecross, Ross-shire.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2003.
