Archaeology Notes

Event ID 870031

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR56NW 8001 c. 535 671

N55 50 W5 56.2

NLO: Eilean nan Gabhar [name: NR 537 675]

Craighouse [name: NR 527 670]

Sound of Jura [name centred NR 64 78]

Jura [name centred NR 54 82]

Small Isles of Jura [name centred NR 546 679].

Location formerly entered as NR 5357 6704 [N55 50.01 W5 56.15] and NR c. 537 675 [N55 50.3 W5 56.1].

(Classified as steel motor vessel, with a cargo of telephone cable: date of loss cited as 15 December 1973). Stormlight: this vessel stranded at the entrance to Craighouse, 135 degrees, 120ft from Lt.

Registration: British. Built 1957. 158grt. Length: 26m. Beam: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 50.02 W5 56.15).

I G Whittaker 1998.

(Entered at cited location NR c. 535 671 [N55 50 W5 56.2]). The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Ridley cites a location of NR 558 707 for this wreck but his published plan places it at NR c. 535 671. The latter location appears the more probable.

The name of this vessel suggests that she was a motorised puffer or VIC.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 October 2002.

G Ridley 1984.

The light 'at the entrance to Craighouse' that is mentioned by Whittaker may refer to either of the beacons NR56NW 66 and NR56NW 67.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 December 2009.