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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 852432
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/852432
NG50SE 8001 c. 551 025
N57 2.9 W6 2.3
NLO: Point of Sleat [name: NM 562 990]
Rubh' an Iasgaich [name: NG 551 025]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
(Classified as Motorboat [Motor Boat]: date of loss cited as 17 June 1925). Rhoda: this vessel was wrecked at Rubh' an Isagaich [Rubh' an Iasgaich], Point of Sleat. Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N57 3.0 W6 3.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The vessel presumably stranded.
The Cuillin Sound is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS map, but the term is applied to the waters between Rum (to the SW) and the SE part of Skye (to the NE).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 March 2008.
