Archaeology Notes

Event ID 837226

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/837226

NN17SW 8001 unlocated

NLO: Fort William [name: NN 105 740]

Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47].

Island of Mull, 5th Feb. 'The PEACE, Peebles, from Newport to Fisherrow, was driven on shore near Fort William, 14th ult.. The crew and greater part of the cargo saved.'

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6925, London, Friday February 14 1834.

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6920).

The map sheet assigned to this loss is essentially arbitrary, but it probably took place within the extensive area of Loch Linnhe. The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 December 2003.