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Sunbeam: Upper Firth Of Clyde
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Sunbeam: Upper Firth Of Clyde
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Dunoon'; Inner Clyde Estuary; Sunbeam
Canmore ID 112262
Site Number NS17NE 8005
NGR NS 17 76
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/112262
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS17NE 8005 unlocated
NLO: Dunoon [name: NS 175 767].
Formerly entered as NS27NW 8043 and NS27NW 9440 at cited location NS 2006 7860 [N55 58 W4 53].
6 November 1882. SUNBEAM. Schooner. 10 years. Not reg. Iron. 24 ton net. Not classed. Owner W. Watson, Greenock. Cargo 46 ton round timber, no deck load. Toward to Greenock. 2 crew. 1 dead. Wind W4. Off Dunoon. This vessel suddenly foundered in fine weather. Cause unknown.
Source: PP Return of Timber-laden ships reported to Bd. of Trade as Foundered or Missing 1873-89 (1890 [C.6087] LXVI.237).
6 November 1882, SUNBEAM, 10 yrs old, not registered, iron smack, 24 tons, 2 crew, Master A. Leitch, Owner W. Watson, Greenock, departed Toward, Argyllshire, for Greenock, carrying timber, 1 life lost, wind W4, foundered, total loss, off Dunoon, Argyllshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1882-83 (1884 [C.4154] LXXI.621).
SUNBEAM iron lighter, from Toward for Greenock, with wood, foundered suddenly off Dunoon yesterday (Nov. 6). One man lost. (Greenock, Nov. 7, 10.20 a.m.). [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1567).
(Classified as iron schooner, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 6 November 1882). Sunbeam: this vessel foundered off Dunoon. Capt. Leitch.
Not registered. Built 1872. 24nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 57.00 W4 55.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 December 2009.
Loss (6 November 1882)
6 November 1882. SUNBEAM. Schooner. 10 years. Not reg. Iron. 24 ton net. Not classed. Owner W. Watson, Greenock. Cargo 46 ton round timber, no deck load. Toward to Greenock. 2 crew. 1 dead. Wind W4. Off Dunoon. This vessel suddenly foundered in fine weather. Cause unknown.
Source: PP Return of Timber-laden ships reported to Bd. of Trade as Foundered or Missing 1873-89 (1890 [C.6087] LXVI.237).
6 November 1882, SUNBEAM, 10 yrs old, not registered, iron smack, 24 tons, 2 crew, Master A. Leitch, Owner W. Watson, Greenock, departed Toward, Argyllshire, for Greenock, carrying timber, 1 life lost, wind W4, foundered, total loss, off Dunoon, Argyllshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1882-83 (1884 [C.4154] LXXI.621).
SUNBEAM iron lighter, from Toward for Greenock, with wood, foundered suddenly off Dunoon yesterday (Nov. 6). One man lost. (Greenock, Nov. 7, 10.20 a.m.). [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1567).
(Classified as iron schooner, with cargo of timber: date of loss cited as 6 November 1882). Sunbeam: this vessel foundered off Dunoon. Capt. Leitch.
Not registered. Built 1872. 24nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 57.00 W4 55.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (11 December 2009)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 December 2009.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 1111
Name : SUNBEAM
Latitude : 555700
Longitude : 45500
Date Built : 1872
Registration : Not Registered
Type : SCHOONER (IRON)
Tonnage : 24
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 6
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1882
Comment : Foundered off Dunoon. Capt. Leitch
Cargo : TIMBER
