Archaeology Notes

Event ID 833902

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR44NW 8010 c. 403 456

N55 38.1 W6 7.6

NLO: Lagavulin Bay [name centred NR 407 451]

Islay [name centred NR 38 60].

21 September 1890. ELLA. About 23 years. Not reg. Wood yacht (cutter). 5 ton. None on board. Master and owner D. McMillan, Logavulin [Lagavulin], Islay. Lying in Logavulin [Lagavulin] Bay. Ballast. Wind SE9. Logavulin [Lagavulin] Bay, Islay.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1890-91 (1892 [C.6717] LXXI.495).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1433).

(Classified as wooden cutter, in ballast: date of loss cited as 21 September 1890). Ella: this vessel stranded [in] Lagavulin Bay, Islay.

Not registered. Built 1867. Length: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 38.00 W6 7.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The statement by Whittaker that this vessel stranded remains unverified, but is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 November 2003.