Archaeology Notes

Event ID 862488

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR65SE 8003 c. 66 54

N55 43 W5 44

NLO: Isle of Gigha [name centred NR 643 492]

Sound of Jura [name centred NR 64 78]

Jura [name centred NR 54 82]

Rubh an' Dunain: NG 387 161

Skye [name centred NG 45 35].

Possibly on map sheet NR65SW.

For discovery of wreckage apparently from this vessel at Dunan Ruadh, Sound of Sleat, Skye, see NG71NE 8003.

Campbeltown, 3rd Jan. The OTTILLIA (ship), of Cardiff, Griffith, from Quebec to Bristol, with timber, is ashore, on Gigha, and will in all probability become a wreck.

Source: LL, No. 16,142, London, Friday, January 5 1866.

Campbeltown, 3rd Jan. The OTTILLIA, Griffith, from Quebec to Bristol, which came ashore 1st Jan., at the North end of the Island of Gigha, was derelict and waterlogged: her crew landed previously.

Source: LL, No. 16,143, London, Saturday, January 6 1866.

Campbeltown, 6th Jan. The OTTILLIA, of Cardiff, from Quebec to Bristol, which drove ashore at Gigha 1st Jan., has been surveyed, is found greatly damaged, in her bottom, stern, &c., and is recommended to be stripped and sold: ------ employed saving ----- materials.

Source: Additional Intelligence, LL, No. 16,145, London, Tuesday, January 9 1866.

Glasgow, ----. The OTTILLIA, Griffith, from Quebec to Bristol, which drove ashore at Gigha 1st Jan., has been got off and anchored: a tug will be sent for [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10914).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as timber, and date of loss as 5 February 1866). Ottillia: wreckage at Ruindunan [Rubh an' Dunain], Skye. Probably Ottillia drifted off Gigha. Capt. Griffith.

(Location of loss cited as N57 12.83 W5 40.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location and map sheet assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary.

The date cited by Whittaker is evidently that of the vessel's second stranding, on Skye.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 February 2007.