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Destiny: Upper Firth Of Clyde
Motor Fishing Vessel (20th Century)
Site Name Destiny: Upper Firth Of Clyde
Classification Motor Fishing Vessel (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Gourock Pier'; Inner Clyde Estuary; Destiny
Canmore ID 217328
Site Number NS27NW 8048
NGR NS 24 78
NGR Description NS c. 24 78
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Maritime - Inverclyde
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS27NW 8048 c. 24 78
N55 58 W4 49
NLO: Gourock [name: NS 230 770]
Gourock Bay [name centred NS 247 777].
Formerly entered at cited location NS c. 24 77 [N55 57 W4 49] and as Unlocated.
Possibly on map sheet and/or within Maritime - Argyll and Bute.
(Classified as fishing vessel: date of loss cited as 16 December 1989). Destiny: this vessel sank 0.25 mile N of Gourock Pier. Capt. Irving.
Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N55 58.0 W4 49.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being . Gourock Railway Station and Pier (NS27NW 231) are at NS 2433 7790. This vessel may have sunk within the area of map sheet and/or within the quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Argyll and Bute.
The cause of her sinking remains unclear.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 2004.
Loss (16 December 1989)
(Classified as fishing vessel: date of loss cited as 16 December 1989). Destiny: this vessel sank 0.25 mile N of Gourock Pier. Capt. Irving.
Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N55 58.0 W4 49.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (6 September 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative, being . Gourock Railway Station and Pier (NS27NW 231) are at NS 2433 7790. This vessel may have sunk within the area of map sheet NS27NE and/or within the quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Argyll and Bute.
The cause of her sinking remains unclear.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 15874
Name : DESTINY
Latitude : 555800
Longitude : 44900
Registration : BRITISH
Type : FV
Loss Day : 16
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1989
Comment : Sank 0.25 mile north of Gourock Pier. Capt. Irving
