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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 864267
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/864267
NG72NW 8020 c. 75 26
N57 16 W5 44
NLO: Kyleakin [name: NG 754 263]
Loch Alsh [name centred NG 80 25]
Kyle Akin [name centred NG 758 268]
Inner Sound [name centred NG 64 40].
Kyleakin, 6th Aug. The ALERT (schr.), of Aberystwith, Griffiths, from Liverpool to Harburg, with merchandise, was beached here to-day, making water, having struck on a sunken rock in Kylerhea sound [Kyle Rhea].
Source: LL, No. 17,265, London, Monday, August 16 1869.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11663).
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, and the date cited is that of report.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 February 2007.
