Archaeology Notes

Event ID 849340

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/849340

NR64SE 8003 c. 68 40

N55 36 W5 41

NLO: Muasdale [name: NR 682 402]

Isle of Gigha [name centred NR 642 492]

Sound of Gigha [name centred NR 67 49]

Mull of Kintyre [name: NR 612 058]

Campbeltown [name: NR 720 204].

Possibly on map sheet NR63NE.

Campbeltown, 29th May. A head-board, about 8 feet long, painted black, with 'GREAT WESTERN', in gold letters, has been washed on shore at Mussdale [Muasdale], 13 miles N. of this place.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 12,536, London, Wednesday May 31 1854.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9024).

The location, map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the reported location of discovery of wreckage. The vessel probably foundered offshore, possibly beyond Scottish waters.

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 September 2006.