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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 867774
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/867774
NS33SW 8001 c. 31 30
N55 32.6 W4 40.7
NLO: Port Ronnald [name: NS 310 310]
Troon [name: NS 315 310]
South Bay [name: NS 313 302].
Formerly entered as NS23SE 8001 at cited location NS 2918 3227 (N55 33 W4 42.5).
22 December 1894, CORONELLA, 32 years, of Dublin. Wood brigantine. 108 ton. 6 men. Master and owner C. Davey, Hele Bridge, Stratton, Cornwall. Glasgow to Dingle, Co. Kerry. Coal. Wind W11. South Bay, Troon.
Source: PP abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1894-95 (1896 [C.8247] LXXV.489).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1063).
(Classified as wooden brig, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 22 December 1894). Coronella; this vessel stranded [in] South Bay, Troon, near Port Ronald [Ronnald]. (Brigantine?) Capt. Davey.
Registration: Dublin. Built 1862. 108nrt. Length: 27m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 32.25 W4 40.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from that ('near Port Ronald') cited by Whittaker. This remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 May 2010.
