Walnut: Loch Crinan, Sound Of Jura

NR79SE 8003 c. 78 94

N56 5 W5 34

NLO: Loch Crinan [name centred NR 790 950]

Crinan [name: NR 787 940]

Sound of Jura [name centred NR 64 78]

Jura [name centred NR 54 82].

Possibly on map sheet NR79NE.

12 December 1883, WALNUT, 23 yrs old, of Glasgow, wooden dandy, 54 tons, 3 crew, Master T. Leitch, Owner O. Young, Glasgow, departed Glasgow for Tobermory, carrying coal, wind NW10, stranded, total loss, Crinan Harbour, Argyllshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3451).

(Classified as wooden dandy, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 12 December 1883). Walnut: this vessel stranded [at] Crinan harbour. Capt.Leitch.

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1860. 54grt. Length: 20m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 5.33 W5 34.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains uncertain whether the vessel stranded within the ill-defined natural roadstead of Crinan Harbour [name centred NR 7808 9420] to the W of Crinan, or within the entrance basin (NR79SE 37) at the W end of the Crinan Canal (NR79SE 48.00); the former appears the more probable.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 June 2008.