Archaeology Notes

Event ID 854647

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NLO: Skye [name centred NG 45 35].

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as December 1832). Jannets: this vessel was lost off Skye.

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1807. 21 tons burthern. Length: 10m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 10.0 W6 30.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The location cited by Whittaker is presumably arbitrary.

It remains unclear off which side of this extensive island the vessel (presumably) foundered.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 August 2008.