Archaeology Notes

Event ID 858821

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM69NW 8005 unlocated

NLO: Mallaig [name: NM 675 970]

Sound of Sleat [name centred NG 72 09].

(Classified as wooden steamship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 28 March 1979). Loch Arkaig: this vessel foundered at Mallaig, was refloated and sunk at sea. Where?

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1942. 179grt. Length: 34m. Beam: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 0.0 W5 55.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The location of the final sinking of this vessel remains unknown, but was presumably within the Sound of Sleat.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 March 2008.