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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 860885
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/860885
NH09NW 8001 0136 9982
N57 56.6167 W5 21.3833
NLO: Carn Dearg [name centred NH 008 991]
Camas na Ruthiag [name centred NH 004 986]
Leac Dhonn [name: NH 012 993]
Loch Broom [name centred NH 10 93].
Formerly entered as NH09NW 8548, and classified as Barge.
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 52
Surveying Details
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31 August 1994. The remains of a steam powered barge called the INNISJURA (identified by her bell dated 1913) have been found at 57 56 37N, 005 21 23W.
Report by C Barnes of Atlantic Diving Ltd.
Hydrographic Office, 1995.
Dream wreck Yields all. Rye BSAC Branch Divers, Craig Barnes and Stuart Brooks, found the site whilst diving from Atlantic Diving Services boat HERON, skippered by Andrew Holbrook. In the hold was a large mound of wooden poles. In the silt at the bow the port light was found and raised by the divers with a lifting bag. The wheelhouse had collapsed but still contained the roote wheel with brass rings still attached. After moving a couple of steel plats the men also found and raised the vessel's steam whistle and compass binnacle. The bell was also recovered engraved with 'INNISJURA 1913'. Finds were reported to the Receiver of Wreck. A local man remembered the collison and sinking during WWI of a coastal barge carrying German prisoners over to help build the harbour pier.
Source: Diver Magazine March 1995 p 54.
(Classified as steel Motor Vessel, with cargo of poles: date of loss cited as 10 January 1921). Innisjura: this vessel was wrecked on Iolla Carn Dearg [and] disappeared on 18 January 1921.
Registration: London. Built 1913. 127grt. Length: 23m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 56.33 W5 21.38).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The classification that is cited by both Larn and Larn and Whittaker is at variance with that cited by UKHO; the former is preferred. The location cited by UKHO is accepted.
Iolla Carn Dearg is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 October 2008.
