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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 852966
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/852966
NR56NW 8014 c. 54 68
N55 51 W5 56
NLO: Jura [name centred NR 54 82]
Sound of Jura [name centred NR 64 78]
Small Isles of Jura [name centred NR 546 679].
Glasgow, 4th Feb. The THISTLE (sloop), of Inverness, from Liverpool to Stirling, with salt, in working out of Small Isles Bay, 1st Feb., missed stays, and was totally wrecked on Goat Island: crew saved.
Source: LL, No. 15,545, London, Friday, February 5 1864,
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10551).
(Classified as wooden sloop, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 1 February 1864). Thistle: this vessel was wrecked on Goat Island, Small Isles Bay.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1827. 47grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 52.0 W5 55.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Goat Island is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 December 2006.
