Toward: Ard Rocks, Port Ellen, Islay, Atlantic
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Toward: Ard Rocks, Port Ellen, Islay, Atlantic
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Aird Imersay; Loch Leodamais; The Ard; North Channel; Toward
Canmore ID 117103
Site Number NR34SE 8007
NGR NR 367 448
NGR Description NR c. 367 448
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
NR34SE 8007 c. 367 448
N55 37.5 W6 11
NLO: Port Ellen [name: NR 363 453]
The Ard [name: NR 368 448]
Loch Leodamais [name centred NR 364 450].
Formerly entered as NR34NE 8004 at cited location NR 3620 4556 [N55 37.9 W6 11.5].
Possibly on map sheet NR34NE.
11 December 1883, TOWARD, 22 yrs old, of Greenock, wooden schooner, 58 tons, 3 crew, Master H. McKellar, Owner D. McArthur, Glasgow, departed Irvine for Port Ellen, Islay, carrying coal, wind NW10, stranded, total loss, Ard Rocks, Port Ellen, Islay.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).
TOWARD. Port Ellen, Dec. 12 (by Tel. Dated Greenock, Dec. 13, 3 51 p.m.). TOWARD, of Greenock, McKellar master, cargo coals, went on rocks on south side of harbour here last night at 11, and will be total wreck. Strong gale from the west. Crew saved by passing line to shore.
Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,723, London, Friday, December 14 1883.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3435).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 11 December 1883). Toward: this vessel stranded on Ard Rocks, Port Ellen. (Aird Imersay?). Capt. McKellar.
Registration: Greenock. Built 1862. 58grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 39.00 W6 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this rock is essentially tentative. Ard Rocks are not specifically noted on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map but the name presumably applies to some or all of the rocks around the promontory of The Ard, to the S of Port Ellen and Loch Leodamais.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 March 2002.
Loss (11 December 1883)
11 December 1883, TOWARD, 22 yrs old, of Greenock, wooden schooner, 58 tons, 3 crew, Master H. McKellar, Owner D. McArthur, Glasgow, departed Irvine for Port Ellen, Islay, carrying coal, wind NW10, stranded, total loss, Ard Rocks, Port Ellen, Islay.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).
TOWARD. Port Ellen, Dec. 12 (by Tel. Dated Greenock, Dec. 13, 3 51 p.m.). TOWARD, of Greenock, McKellar master, cargo coals, went on rocks on south side of harbour here last night at 11, and will be total wreck. Strong gale from the west. Crew saved by passing line to shore.
Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,723, London, Friday, December 14 1883.
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3435).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 11 December 1883). Toward: this vessel stranded on Ard Rocks, Port Ellen. (Aird Imersay?). Capt. McKellar.
Registration: Greenock. Built 1862. 58grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 39.00 W6 4.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (15 March 2002)
The location assigned to this rock is essentially tentative. Ard Rocks are not specifically noted on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map but the name presumably applies to some or all of the rocks around the promontory of The Ard, to the S of Port Ellen and Loch Leodamais.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 March 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3423
Name : TOWARD
Latitude : 553900
Longitude : 60400
Date Built : 1862
Registration : GREENOCK
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 58
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 20
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 11
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1883
Comment : Stranded on Ard Rocks, Port Ellen. (Aird Imersay?) Capt. McKellar
Cargo : COAL
