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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 866449
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/866449
NS16SW 8008 1163 6437
N55 50.15 W5 .5
NLO: Bogany Point [name: NS 108 654]
Craigmore [name: NS 107 651]
Montford [name: NS 107 641]
Ascog Point [name: NS 108 633].
Formerly entered as NS16SW 9106.
25 July 1896 ARAB, 18 years, of Glasgow, wood yacht (smack), 5 ton, 3 men, Master A. Petrie, Bowling, Dumbartonshire. Cruising in Firth of Clyde. Ballast. 2 dead. Wind NE6. Off Ascog, Bute.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1896-97 (1898 [C.8917] LXXXVIII.401).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 859).
Horizontal Datum = OGB
General water depth = 25
Surveying Details
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21 March 1983. This foul could be the wreck of the wooden smack ARAB. The position given is 55 50 09N, 005 00 30W.
12 May 1986. The site was not found during general survey.
Report by HMS GLEANER.
Hydrographic Office 1995.
(Classified as wooden yacht, in ballast: date of loss cited as 25 July 1896). Arab: this vessel foundered off Craigmore Point, Bute. Capt. Petrie.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1878. 5grt. Length: 9m. Beam: 3m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 49.50 W5 0.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location cited remains unverified.
Craigmore Point is not noted as such on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 September 2003.
