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Seal: Sound Of Mull
Steamship (19th Century)
Site Name Seal: Sound Of Mull
Classification Steamship (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Lochaline; Hayburn; 'two Miles West Of Loch Aline'; Poll Arinnis; Morvern; Seal
Canmore ID 118825
Site Number NM64SW 8008
NGR NM 64 44
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/118825
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NM64SW 8008 unlocated
NLO: Poll Arinnis [name centred NM 652 448]
Lochaline [name: NM 679 445]
Loch Aline [name centred NM 689 461]
Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46].
Formerly entered in error as NM64NW 8001 at cited location NM 6500 4450 [N56 32.02 W5 49.34].
Location also formerly cited as NM c. 652 448 [N56 32.2 W5 49.2].
26 August 1893, SEAL, 1 year, of Glasgow. Steel steamship. 44 ton. 4 men. Master M. Fletcher. Owner J.M. Paton, Glasgow. Loch Duich, Ross-shire to Glasgow. Pitwood. Collided steamship MOUNT PARK of Greenock. Wind N2. 2 miles W. of Loch Aline, Sound of Mull.
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. 1237).
(Classified as steel steamship, with cargo of pitwood: date of loss cited as 26 August 1893). Seal: this vessel was in collision and sank 2 miles W of Loch Aline [Lochaline] (Mount Park). Capt. Fletcher.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1892. 44nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N56 32.0 W5 50.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker. The vessel may have sunk within the quasi-administrative area that is designated as Maritime - Argyll and Bute.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 October 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 2652
Name : SEAL
Latitude : 563200
Longitude : 55000
Date Built : 1892
Registration : GLASGOW
Type : SS (STEEL)
Tonnage : 44
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 26
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1893
Comment : Collision and sunk 2 miles west of Loch Aline. (MOUNT PARK). Capt. Fletcher
Cargo : PITWOOD
