Archaeology Notes

Event ID 865810

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/865810

NR44NW 8015 c. 403 456

N55 38.1 W6 7.6

NLO: Lagavulin Bay [name centred NR 407 451]

Islay [name centred NR 38 60].

See also NR44NW 8016.

Glasgow, 19th Jan. During the gale of the 16th Jan., the FAIRY (schr.), of Islay, McMillan, in ballast, drove ashore at Lagavulan [Lagavulin], Islay, and filled: the ISABELLA (smack), of Islay or Greenock, McMillan, drove ashore at Ardbeg, but was got off the following day. A quantity of flour barrels and other wreckage have been driven ashore at Islay.

Source, LL, No. 17,711, London, Saturday, January 21 1871.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11937).

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), possibly suggesting her successful recovery.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 March 2009.