Bella: Ballachulish Bay, Loch Linnhe

NN06SW 8004 c. 04 60

N56 41 W5 12

NLO: North Ballachulish [name centred NN 055 605]

South Ballachulish [name centred NN 051 950]

Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47].

Formerly entered as NN05NE 8002 at cited location NN 0780 5850 [N56 40.7 W5 8.2] and NN c. 07 58 [N56 40 W5 9].

Possibly on map sheet NN05NW.

25 October 1893, BELLA, 9 years, of Wick. Wood smack. 26 ton. 3 men. Master and owner M.F. Fleming, Helmsdale. Ballachulish to Dingwall. Slates. Wind SW5. Near Ballachulish.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1160).

(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of slates: date of loss cited as 25 October 1893). Bella: this vessel stranded near Ballachulish. Capt. Fleming.

Registration: Wick. Built 1884. 26grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 41.33 W5 11.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Ballachulish Bay is not specifically noted on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map, but the text of the Hydrographic Office entry to NMRS NN06SW 8001 suggests that the name applies to the area of Loch Linnhe in front of North Ballachulish village [North Ballachulish: NN 080 585] and to the N of the entrance to Loch Leven.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 March 2002.