Jane Shearer: Scallastle Bay, Sound Of Mull

NM63NE 8004 c. 69 39

N56 29 W5 45

NLO: Scallastle Bay [name: NM 693 393]

Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46].

Formerly entered as NM74SE 8005 and NM74SE 8582 at cited location NM 7037 4254 [N56 31.1 W5 44].

Possibly on map sheet or NM74SE.

(Classified as brigantine: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 28 December 1879). Jane Shearer: this vessel foundered at anchor in Scallastle Bay. Registration: British.

(Location of loss cited as N56 30.50 W5 44.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location of loss assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Scallastle Bay is an extensive but ill-defined embayment set into the N coast of Mull.

The broad (NW-SE) but shallow (NE-SW) embayment of Scallastle Bay offers a sheltered anchorage set into the SW (Isle of Mull) shore near its SE end. It is protected from the open Lynn of Morvern (to the E) by the Glas Eileanan islands [name: NM 714 399], and by Scallastle Point [name: NM 710 388] and its adjacent islands (to the NW). The seabed within the bay shelves gradually towards the NE, to a depth of between 15m and 18m. The seabed is charted as a mixture of sand, shell and mud.

There are several fish cages within the bay.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 October 2003.

UKHO chart no. 2390 (1976, amended 1991).