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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 852655

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/852655

NN06SW 8013 c. 01 63

N56 43 W5 15

NLO: Corran Narrows [name: NN 017 632]

Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47]

Oban [name: NM 862 303].

See also NN06SW 8016 and NN06SW 8017.

Greenock, 6th Oct. Two large schooners, have gone ashore at the Corrans, Oban, one of them with 100 tons of freestone.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,512, London, Monday October 8 1860.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9904).

(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 6 October 1860). Unknown: first of two schooners sranded at Corran.

(Location of loss cited as N56 43.0 W5 15.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 April 2008.

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