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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 845325
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/845325
NM79NW 8004 unlocated
NLO: Loch Nevis [name centred NM 76 95]
Sound of Sleat [name centred NG 72 09].
Possibly on map sheet NM79SE.
Isle of Skye, 22d Dec. 'The stern of a vessel, painted 'MARGARET & JENNY of Greenock', has been washed on shore at Lochnevis [Loch Nevis].'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6807, London, Friday December 28 1832.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7046).
(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 22 December 1832). Margaret & Jenny: the stern of this vessel was washed ashore at Loch Nevis. Registration: Greenock.
(Location of loss cited as N57 2.0 W5 45.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, being derived from the location and date of the reported discovery of wreckage. The vessel presumably foundered out at sea, possibly beyond Scottish waters.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 June 2005.
