Archaeology Notes

Event ID 842149

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG17NW 8001 unlocated

NLO: Eilean Glas [name: NG 247 947]

Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46].

Formerly entered as NM54NE 8006 a cited location NG c. 595 450 (N56 32.1 W5 54.7).

Foundered 20 September 1850, SAMUELS, schooner. Liverpool to Cronstadt [Kronstadt], I. of Glas Light. (Tobermory?) bearing NE distance 12 miles, foundered. D.h. 7 October 1850. Lloyds List 8 October 1850

Source: PP British Sessional Papers. Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1850 and 1851 (1852 (XLIX.503))

Tobermory, 3rd Oct. The SAMUELS (schooner), Berwick, from Liverpool to Cronstadt, foundered 20th Sept., Isle of Gloss Light bearing NE. about 12 miles; crew saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,403, London, Tuesday October 8 1850.

NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 167).

(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 20 September 1850). Samuels: this vessel foundered with [the] Isle of Glass light bearing NE at 12 miles.

Registration: Kirkcaldy. Built 1841. 86 tons burthern. Length: 18m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 42.0 W6 50.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker. It remains uncertain to which of the Glass Islands (or similar names) the account refers; a location around Eileanan Glasa [name: NM 595 450] in the Sound of Mull is also possible. The loss may alternatively fall within the quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Western Isles.

Eilean Glass Lighthouse, Scalpay (NG29SW 1.00) is at NG 24743 94715.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 July 2003.