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Warlock: Lower Loch Fyne, Firth Of Clyde
Steamship (20th Century)
Site Name Warlock: Lower Loch Fyne, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Steamship (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Three Miles South Of Skate Island'; Sgat Mor; Sgat Beag; Outer Clyde Estuary; Warlock
Canmore ID 112406
Site Number NR96SW 8003
NGR NR 94 61
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/112406
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NR96NE 8005 unlocated
NLO: Loch Fyne [name centred NR 94 89].
Formerly entered as NR87NE 8005 at cited location NR 8869 7630 [N55 56 W5 23].
Possibly on map sheet NR96SW.
(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of crushed granite: date of loss cited as 19 November 1905). Warlock: this vessel foundered three miles South of Skate Island. Capt. Lamb.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1871. 47 grt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 48.0 W5 17.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. The location of Skate Island cannot be established from the available map evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 June 2002.
(Re-entered as NR96SW 8003). The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of map sheet NR96SW.
Per contra the above, the Skate Islands are probably to be equated with Sgat Mor [name: NR 930 666] and Sgat Beag [name: NR 942 665] off the SW side of the Cowal peninsula.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 November 2009.
Loss (19 November 1905)
(Classified as iron steamship, with cargo of crushed granite: date of loss cited as 19 November 1905). Warlock: this vessel foundered three miles South of Skate Island. Capt. Lamb.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1871. 47 grt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 48.0 W5 17.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (17 June 2002)
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. The location of Skate Island cannot be established from the available map evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 June 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 2603
Name : WARLOCK
Latitude : 554800
Longitude : 51700
Date Built : 1871
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SS (IRON)
Tonnage : 47
Tonnage Code : G
Loss Day : 19
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1905
Comment : Foundered 3 miles S of Skate Island. Capt. Lamb
Cargo : CRUSHED GRANITE
