Avro Shackleton: Scallastle Bay, Sound Of Mull
Aircraft (20th Century)
Site Name Avro Shackleton: Scallastle Bay, Sound Of Mull
Classification Aircraft (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sound Of Mull; Mull; Unknown
Canmore ID 102426
Site Number NM64SE 8003
NGR NM 69195 41277
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/102426
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NM64SE 8003 6919 4128
N56 30.4167 W5 45.0833
NLO: Scallastle Bay [name: NM 693 393]
Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46].
Formerly entered as NM64SE 9055, and assigned in error to quasi-administrative area of Maritime - Highland.
Cross Ref: NM64SW 9214 UNKNOWN (CESSNA 150)
Horizontal Datum = UND
Surveying Details
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15 January 1954. An aircraft crashed into the Sound of Mull, at 56 30 25N, 005 45 05W. The site is marked by green conical buoy.
7 January 1974. The position and general area were sounded. Nothing was located.
Report by boat party.
Hydrographic Office, 1995
(Classified as Avro Shackelton [Shackleton]: date of loss cited as 11 December 1953). This aircraft crashed in Scallastle Bay, Sound of Mull. Registration: British.
(Location cited as N56 30.42 W5 45.08).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Whittaker cites no identity, mark or squadron allocation for this aircraft, which was presumably in RAF service.
Scallastle Bay is an extensive but ill-defined embayment set into the N coast of Mull.
The broad (NW-SE) but shallow (NE-SW) embayment of Scallastle Bay offers a sheltered anchorage set into the SW (Isle of Mull) shore near its SE end. It is protected from the open Lynn of Morvern (to the E) by the Glas Eileanan islands [name: NM 714 399], and by Scallastle Point [name: NM 710 388] and its adjacent islands (to the NW). The seabed within the bay shelves gradually towards the NE, to a depth of between 15m and 18m. The seabed is charted as a mixture of sand, shell and mud.
There are several fish cages within the bay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 December 2004.
UKHO chart no. 2390 (1976, amended 1991).
Reference (19 April 2012)
UKHO Identifier : 002715
Feature Class : Wreck
Wreck Category : Non-dangerous wreck
State : DEAD
Classification : Unclassified
Position (Lat/long) : 56.50694,-5.75139
Horizontal Datum : ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN (1936)
WGS84 Position (Lat/long) : 56.50677,-5.75247
WGS84 Origin : 3-D Cartesian Shift (BW)
Previous Position : 56.50695,-5.75138
Position Quality : Unreliable
Depth Quality : Depth unknown
Water Depth : 75
Vertical Datum : Mean Low Water Springs
Name : UNKNOWN
Type : SHACKLETON AIRCRAFT
Date Sunk : 11/12/1953
Bottom Texture : Mud
Contact Description : Aircraft
Original Sensor : Reported Sinking
Original Detection Year : 1954
Original Source : Other
Circumstances of Loss : **COASTAL COMMAND SHACKLETON AIRCRAFT ON A TRAINING FLIGHT FROM BALLYKELLY, N IRELAND, LOST IN SCALLASTLE BAY FOLLOWING AN EXPLOSION. 10 LIVES LOST. (SHIPWRECKS OF THE W OF SCOTLAND)
Surveying Details : **H8220/53 15.1.54 AIRCRAFT CRASHED IN SOUND OF MULL, IN 563025N, 054505W [OGB]. MARKED BY G CONICAL BUOY. (WZ 296). NCA.
**H5248/73 7.1.74 POSN & GENERAL AREA SOUNDED. NOTHING LOCATED. (NAVAL BOAT PARTY 5640(M), HI 46/73). NCA.
POSITIONS BELOW THIS POINT ARE IN DEGREES, MINUTES AND DECIMALS OF A MINUTE
**9.1.09 WRECKAGE FROM AIRCRAFT FOUND IN SEVERAL POSNS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE SOUND. 2 BODIES WERE RECOVERED FROM THE WATER AT TIME OF INCIDENT. AREA HAS BEEN WORKED BY SCALLOP DREDGERS SO LITTLE OF AIRCRAFT WILL REMAIN. AN ENGINE WITH PROPELLER INTACT WAS FOUND IN A GEN DEPTH OF 25MTRS IN SCALLASTLE BAY, TO THE S OF STATED POSN. (SHIPWRECKS OF W SCOTLAND). NCA.
**12.3.12 NOT LOCATED 30.10.11 BY M/B WITHIN 250MTRS OF LISTED POSN. (NETSURVEY, HI 1364). AMEND DEAD. NCA.
Charting Comments : POSN FOR FILING ONLY
Date Last Amended : 12/03/2012
Date Position Last Amended : 09/01/2009
