Sutherland: Garroch Head, Bute, Firth Of Clyde
Barquentine (19th Century)
Site Name Sutherland: Garroch Head, Bute, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Barquentine (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Outer Clyde Estuary; Sound Of Bute; Sutherland
Canmore ID 112397
Site Number NS05SE 8003
NGR NS 098 517
NGR Description NS c. 098 517
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS05SE 8003 c. 098 517
N55 43.3 W5 1.7
NLO: Garroch Head [name: NS 098 517]
Sound of Bute [name centred NS 01 55].
Location formerly entered as NS 0948 5122 (N55 43.016 W5 02).
Possibly on map sheet NS15SW.
7 February 1881, SUTHERLAND, 7 yrs old, of Mirimichi, N.B., wooden barquentine, 316 tons, about 12 crew, Master H. Edgett, Owner G. McLeod, Richibucto, N.B., departed Troon for Cardenas, carrying coal, wind F9, stranded, total loss, Garroch Head, Bute.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).
Rothesay, Feb. 8, 12.32 p.m., SUTHERLAND barquentine, of Miramichi, Captain Edgett, went ashore Garroch Head, Bute, yesterday, about 8.30 a.m.: crew all saved: vessel total wreck: master and crew waiting, saving spars, sails, &c. [Memo: The above vessel sailed from Troon, Feb. 6, for Matanzas]. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3077).
(Classified as wooden barquentine, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 7 February 1881). Sutherland: this vessel stranded [on] Garroch Head. Capt. Edgett.
Registration: Mirimichi, NB. Built 1874. 346 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 43.25 W5 1.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Garroch Head is the southernmost point of Bute.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 June 2004.
Loss (7 February 1881)
7 February 1881, SUTHERLAND, 7 yrs old, of Mirimichi, N.B., wooden barquentine, 316 tons, about 12 crew, Master H. Edgett, Owner G. McLeod, Richibucto, N.B., departed Troon for Cardenas, carrying coal, wind F9, stranded, total loss, Garroch Head, Bute.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).
Rothesay, Feb. 8, 12.32 p.m., SUTHERLAND barquentine, of Miramichi, Captain Edgett, went ashore Garroch Head, Bute, yesterday, about 8.30 a.m.: crew all saved: vessel total wreck: master and crew waiting, saving spars, sails, &c. [Memo: The above vessel sailed from Troon, Feb. 6, for Matanzas]. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3077).
(Classified as wooden barquentine, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 7 February 1881). Sutherland: this vessel stranded [on] Garroch Head. Capt. Edgett.
Registration: Mirimichi, NB. Built 1874. 346 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 43.25 W5 1.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (16 June 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 June 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 698
Name : SUTHERLAND
Latitude : 554315
Longitude : 50130
Date Built : 1874
Registration : MIRIMICHI, NB
Type : BARQUENTINE (WOOD)
Tonnage : 346
Loss Day : 7
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1881
Comment : Stranded Garroch Hd. Capt. Edgett
Cargo : COAL
