Unknown: The Wig, Loch Ryan, Firth Of Clyde
Air Sea Rescue Craft (20th Century)
Site Name Unknown: The Wig, Loch Ryan, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Air Sea Rescue Craft (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Wig Bay Seaplane Base; Outer Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 121923
Site Number NX06NW 8004
NGR NX 039 674
NGR Description NX c. 039 674
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Maritime - Dumfries And Galloway
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NX06NW 8004 c. 039 674
N54 57.8 W5 3.8
NLO: The Wig [name: NX 039 674]
Loch Ryan [name centred NX 05 65].
Formerly entered as NXO6SW 8003 at cited location NX 0400 6750 (N54 57.8 W5 3.7), under classification Patrol Boat.
(Classified as Rescue Craft: date of loss cited as 17 September 1946). Unknown: an Air Sea Rescue Craft, being towed for beaching after [a] fire, sank in Wig Bay.
Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N54 58.0 W5 4.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 May 2004.
Loss (17 September 1946)
(Classified as Rescue Craft: date of loss cited as 17 September 1946). Unknown: an Air Sea Rescue Craft, being towed for beaching after [a] fire, sank in Wig Bay.
Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N54 58.0 W5 4.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (7 May 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 May 2004.
