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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 831419

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/831419

NR83NW 8006 c. 809 369

N55 34.6 W5 28.6

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 1859 loss of the same name nearby, for which see NR83NW 8005.

17 October 1897 GRACE DARLING, 30 years, of Fleetwood. Wood ketch. 43 ton, 3 men. Master C. Dempsey. Owner A. Hull, Belfast. Belfast to Loch Fyne. Ballast. Wind S9. Carradale Beach, Cantyre.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 801).

(Classified as wooden ketch, in ballast: date of loss cited as 17 October 1897). Grace Darling: this vessel stranded at Carradale beach. Capt. Dempsey.

Registration: Fleetwood. Built 1867. 43 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 34.50 W5 28.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Carradale Beach is presumably the extensive beach along the N side of Carradale Bay.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2002.

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