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Constance: Sound Of Islay
Smack (20th Century)
Site Name Constance: Sound Of Islay
Classification Smack (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Islay; Jura; Atlantic; Constance
Canmore ID 116872
Site Number NR46NW 8019
NGR NR 43 67
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/116872
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NR46NW 8019 unlocated
NLO: Sound of Islay [name centred NR 43 71]
Islay [name centred NR 38 60]
Jura [name centred NR 54 82].
Location formerly entered as NR 4300 7400 [N55 53.42 W6 06.6].
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 1 May 1902). Constance: this vessel stranded in the Sound of Islay. Capt. Williamson.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1868. 99grt. Length: 24m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 50.00 W6 6.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, and it remains unclear whether this vessel stranded on Islay or Jura.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 May 2002.
Loss (1 May 1902)
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 1 May 1902). Constance: this vessel stranded in the Sound of Islay. Capt. Williamson.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1868. 99grt. Length: 24m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 50.00 W6 6.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (6 May 2002)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, and it remains unclear whether this vessel stranded on Islay or Jura.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 May 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4661
Name : CONSTANCE
Latitude : 555000
Longitude : 60600
Date Built : 1868
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 99
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 24
Beam : 6
Draught : 3m
Loss Day : 1
Loss Month : 5
Loss Year : 1902
Comment : Stranded in the Sound of Islay. Capt. Williamson
Cargo : SALT
