Clydesdale: Lady's Rock, Firth Of Lorn

NM73SE 8003 c. 772 343

N56 26.9 W5 36.9

NLO: Lady's Rock [name: NM 772 343]

Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46]

Firth of Lorn [name centred NM 69 19].

For possibly co-located remains of the Mountaineer, see NM73SE 8004.

Formerly entered as NM73SE 3 at cited location NM 7720 3440 [N56 26.9 W5 36.9].

The steamer CLYDESDALE of the Macbrayne fleet went on the Lady Rock [Lady's Rock: NM 772 343] in the Sound of Mull on Friday morning, 13 January 1905. She was on her outward voyage with the mails from Oban to Barra, and went on the rock shortly after 7 o'clock. Heavy sleet showers were falling at the time, and Lismore Light was obscured. The passengers were taken off by the Carabineer on her inward run from Tobermory, and landed at Oban.

Source: Oban Times, January 1905.

(Classified as iron steamship, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 6 January 1905). Clydesdale: this vessel stranded on high and dry on Lady [Lady's] Rock, and was possibly broken up on site. Capt. Cowan.

Registation: Glasgow. Built 1862. 468grt. Length: 60m. Beam: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 26.67 W5 36.75).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Material reported under RoW amnesty (2001):

A1953 2 portholes: from seabed (from Mountaineer or Clydesdale).

NMRS, MS/829/35.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 May 2008.