Archaeology Notes
Event ID 841681
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NL72SE 8001 c. 798 226
N56 17.3 W7 06.9
NLO: Skerryvore [name: NL 840 263]
Tiree [name centred NM 00 45].
Formerly entered as NF81NW 8002 and NF81NW 9534 at cited location NF 8378 1725 (N57 8.2333 W7 13.6833).
1 March 1899 LABRADOR, 8 years, of Liverpool, steel steam ship, 2,998 ton, 94 men, master T.W. Erskine, owner Mississippi and Dominion SS Co. Ltd., Liverpool. St. John NB to Liverpool, General and 64 passengers. Wind SW4. Mackenzie's Rocks near Skerrygrove [Skerryvore] Lighthouse. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 745).
Quality of fix = PA
Horizontal Datum = OGB
Circumstances of Loss Details
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The SS LABRADOR was built in 1891 and was wrecked on Mackenzie Rock, near the Skerryvore Lighthouse, whilst en-route from St John, New Bruswick to Liverpool. It was owned at the time of loss by Mississippi & Dominion Steamship Co.
Source; Dictionary of Disasters at Sea
Surveying Details
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5 March 1975. The vessel was wrecked on the Mackenzie Rock at 57 08 14N, 007 13 41W approximately.
Report by P . L. Sellars, letter dated 11 February 1975.1
9 August 1975. The site was not located.
Report by D. Sloan, letter dated 31 July 1975.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
(Classified as steel steamship, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 2 March 1899). Labrador: this vessel stranded on Mackenzie [Mackenzie's] Rock. Capt. Erskine.
Registration: Liverpool. Built 1891. 4737grt. Length: 121m. Beam: 14m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 17.47 W7 10.25).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):
A037 1 porthole and hinge (from seabed).
NMRS, MS/829/32.
Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):
A1084 1 and 1/2 portholes, 1 flange ring: from seabed
A1470 1 valve: from seabed
A1948 1 porthole: from seabed.
NMRS, MS/829/35.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Mackenzie's Rock (N56 17.3 W7 10.5) is an isolated rock peak drying to 2.2m above LWMOST and situated 3nm SW of Skerryvore Lighthouse (NL82NW 1). The report of wreck recovered from this vessel indicates that an accurate location is held but has not been reported.
Skerryvore Lighthouse (NL82NW 1) is at NL 8384 2629.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 February 2002.
HO chart 2722 (1989 edition); NMRS, MS/829/32.
