Comet Ii: Kempock Point, Upper Firth Of Clyde

NS27NW 8005 c. 242 780

N55 57.8 W4 49

NLO: Kempock Point [name: NS 242 780]

Gourock Bay [name centred NS 247 777]

Gourock [name: NS 230 770].

Not to be confused with Comet I (NR 7588 9876), for which see NR79NE 8001.

Formerly entered as NS27NW 9400 at cited location NS 2422 7842 (N55 54 W4 49).

Greenock, 22d Oct [1825]. 'The COMET steam boat, MacInnes, from Inverness to Glasgow, with about 60 passengers, came in contact with the AYR lugger steam boat, MacClelland, from hence to Ayr, yesterday morning, off Kempuck [Kempock] Point, near Gourock, when the COMET almost immediately filled and sunk: the master, 3 of the crew, and 7 passengers saved: 11 bodies, and about 90 packages of luggage have been washed on shore. The AYR put back to this port in a leaky state, and sailed again last night after repairing.' [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6431).

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

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

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 April 2005.