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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 834075
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/834075
NG52SE 8001 c. 57 20
N57 12 W6 1
NLO: Loch Slapin [name centred NG 57 17]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
Possibly on map sheet NG51NE.
(Classified as wooden dandy, with cargo of fish curing appliances: date of loss cited as 7 November 1904). Chatterbox: this vessel stranded [on] Torrin Pt, Loch Slappin [Slapin]. Capt. Martin.
Registration: Stornoway. Built 1877. 63grt. Length: 23m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 12.25 W6 1.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Torrin Point cannot be identified from the available map evidence but may be the feature at NG 575 198. The village of Torrin is centred at NG 578 208.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 April 2002.
R and B Larn 2002.
