Archaeology Notes

Event ID 847241

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/847241

NX64NE 8085 c. 66 46

N54 47 W4 5

NLO: Milton Sands [name centred NX 664 468]

Kirkcudbright [name: NX 683 505]

Kirkcudbright Bay [name centred NX 665 455]

Little Ross [name: NX 660 432].

Possibly on map sheet NX64SE.

Dumfries. [recd. per M.T. at 1.27]. A schooner was stranded on the Milton Sands, inside the Ross, on the night of 18th Dec., and has gone to pieces: one man drowned.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,020, London, Thursday December 20 1855.

Dumfries, 20th Dec. It is said that the schooner wrecked inside the Ross on the night of the 18th Dec., is a collier, running between Cumberland and Belfast.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,022, London, Saturday December 22 1855.

Dumfries, 22nd Dec. The schooner which was stranded 18th Dec., on the Milton Sands, inside the Ross, proves to be the PHILIPPA: her decks are reported to be broken up, and she is expected to become a complete wreck.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,023, London, Monday December 24 1855.

Kirkcudbright, 20th Dec. The PHILIPPO (brigantine), McTier, of and for Belfast, from Workington, with coals, in running for this place 18th Dec., during a heavy gale, struck in crossing the Bar, capsized, and has since become a total wreck: crew (except one man) saved. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9156).

(Classified as brigantine: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 18 December 1855). Phillippa (Phillippo?): this vessel was wrecked on Milton Sands, inside [Little] Ross Island. Capt. McTier.

Registration: Belfast.

(Location of loss cited as N54 48.0 W4 5.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Milton Sands occupy an extensive area within the W side of Kirkcudbright Bay. The loss of this vessel may have occurred on map sheet NX64SE.

The date of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 October 2006.