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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 833227
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/833227
NG43NW 8008 unlocated
NLO: Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
(Classified as wooden smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 21 April 1862). Princess Victoria: this vessel foundered off Skye. Capt. McLellan. (Which side/how far?)
(Location of loss cited as N57 10.0 W6 30.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
It remains unclear on which side of this extensive island the vessel stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 August 2008.
