Archaeology Notes

Event ID 853614

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/853614

NG46NE 8001 c. 48 69

N57 38 W6 13

NLO: Staffin Bay [name centred NG 481 691]

Skye [name centred NG 45 35].

Corry, by Broadford, 8th Oct. The SAMPSON (sloop), of Glasgow, with stones and timber, has been put ashore in Loch Staffin [Staffin Bay], on the East coast, and has become a total wreck: part of the timber has been landed in a damaged state.

Source: LL, No. 16,691, London, Friday, October 11 1867.

Glasgow, 15th Oct. The SAMPSON (sloop), which was wrecked in Loch Staffin [Staffin Bay], Skye, 3rd Oct., belonged to Inverness, not to this place, as before reported, and was bound hence to Stenscholl.

Source: LL, No. 16,696, London, Thursday, October 17 1867.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11294).

(Classified as sloop, with cargo of stones and timber: date of loss cited as 3 October 1867). Sampson: this vessel was wrecked in Loch Staffin [Staffin Bay], E side of Skye. Capt. McArthur. (On Staffa?).

Registration: Inverness. Built 1834. 53 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 38.5 W6 14.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Staffin Bay forms a significant indentation into the East coast of the Trotternish peninsula.

The suggestion by Whittaker that this vessel was lost on Staffa may be discounted.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 December 2006.