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Palmar: Eileach An Naoimh, Garvellachs, Atlantic
Brig (19th Century)
Site Name Palmar: Eileach An Naoimh, Garvellachs, Atlantic
Classification Brig (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Garvellacha; 'near Oban'; Firth Of Lorn; 'eilach-a-naonch Island, Off Easdale'
Canmore ID 212825
Site Number NM60NW 8001
NGR NM 64 09
NGR Description NM c. 64 09
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/212825
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NM60NW 8001 c. 64 09
N56 13 W5 48
NLO: Eileach an Naoimh [name 642 098]
Garvellachs [name centred NM 655 113]
Oban [name: NM 862 303]
Easdale [name: NM 736 171]
Firth of Lorn [name centred NM 69 19].
Possibly on map sheet or NM61SE.
Formerly entered as NM83SE 8013 at cited location NM c. 85 30 [N56 25 W5 29].
30 December 1865, for services rendered to the crew of the Netherlands vessel, PALMAR, wrecked on the coast of Scotland, Donald Livingston (shepherd, Garvellacha [Garvellachs]) was awarded £5 and a diploma by the Netherlands.
Table 31: List of Persons (Natives of Great Britain and its Dependencies) to whom Rewards have been granted by Foreign Governments during the Year 1866, for gallant Services in Saving Life from Shipwreck, etc.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1866 (1867 [3901] LXIV.367).
Glasgow, 9th Jan. The PALMAR (brig), of Pekela, Tiktuk, from Jamaica to Liverpool, with logwood, &c., struck on Eilach-a-Naonch [Eileach an Naoimh] Island, off Easdale, 30th Dec., and went down: one man and the master's wife and child drowned.
Source: LL, No. 16,146, London, Wednesday, January 10 1866.
Glasgow, 23rd Sept. The PALMAR (brig), Tiktak, from Jamaica to Liverpool, with lignum vitae, logwood, &c., which sunk off Easdale, 30th Dec., 1865, has been raised, and will probably be brought round to the Clyde and repaired: the cargo is uninjured. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2356).
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 March 2004.
