Archaeology Notes
Event ID 843049
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/843049
NS03SE 8004 0544 3357
N55 33.4167 W5 5.1
NLO: Clauchlands Point [name: NS 056 327]
Hamilton Isle [name: NS 057 327]
Lamlash [name: NS 026 309]
Lamlash Bay [name centred NS 038 306].
Formerly entered as NS03SE 9413.
10 December 1890. ELLIDA. 51 years of Norway. Wood barque. 537 ton. 11 men. Master A. Bügge. Owner E.T. Nielsen, Aasgaardstrand, Norway. Glasgow to Tonsberg. Ballast. Wind ESE 4. Hamilton Rock, Lamlash, Arran.
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. 1445).
ELLIDA. Wood on iron frames. The wreck lies in 12 metres depth, about 1/2 mile N of Clauchlands Point. Two white rocks are visible on shore. Dive off the southern, square column like one. Swim over rocks and follow the sand/rock boundary to an anchor chain. Follow the chain, at right angles to the shore, to the wreck. Iron frames stand about 3 to 4 feet proud of the seabed which is silt with rocks. Items of rigging and other fitments can be seen.
Source: Butland & Siedlecki, BSAC Wreck Register 1987.
Quality of fix = PA
Evidence = Divers Report
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 12
Surveying Details
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4 November 1982. The wreck of the barque ELLIDA lies in depths of 9 to 12 metres about 0.5 miles NW of Clauchlands Point at approximately 55 33 25N, 005 05 06W. The vessel is very broken up. Iron frames stand 1-1.2 metres above seabed. Many items of rigging and other artifacts lie around. An anchor cable is laid out towards the shore.
Source: BSAC Wreck Register.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
(Classified as wooden barque, in ballast: date of loss cited as 10 December 1890). Elida: this vessel stranded [on] Hamilton Rock, Lamlash. Capt. Bugge.
Registration: Horten. Built 1839. 537nrt. Length: 37m. Beam: 9m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 33.00 W5 45.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):
A2431 1 pulley sheave, 1 double block: from seabed
A4041 1 copper nail, 2 pieces wood: from seabed.
NMRS, MS/829/35.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Hamilton Rock is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but is is presumably to be equated with the Hamilton Isle, which is situated just off Clauchlands Point, within the N side of the N entrance to Lamlash Bay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 November 2003.
