Archaeology Notes

Event ID 864664

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR87NE 8012 unlocated

NLO: Loch Fyne [name centred NR 94 89].

Formerly entered as NR87NE 8012 (unlocated).

Greenock, 12th Feb. The BRANDON, (lighter) of Glasgow, was blown out of Tarbert Harbour, and wrecked at Skate Island: crew saved.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,067, London, Thursday February 14 1856.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9220).

(Classified as lighter: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 12 February 1856). Brandon: this vessel was wrecked on Skate Island, near Tarbert. (1854 Limerick Lighter I: 501nrt?)

(Location of loss cited as N55 51.00 W5 18.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. Skate Island cannot be identified from the available map evidence.

Tarbert harbour (NR86NE 18.00) is at NR 866 687.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 October 2006.

(Re-entered as NR96NW 8011 at cited location NR c. 93 66 [N55 51 W5 18]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

Per contra the above, the Skate Islands are probably to be equated with Sgat Mor [name: NR 930 666] and Sgat Beag [name: NR 942 665] off the SW side of the Cowal peninsula.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 November 2009.