Janet Stewart: Strone Point, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Janet Stewart: Strone Point, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Striven; Holy Loch; Kyles Of Bute; Inner Clyde Estuary; Janet Stewart
Canmore ID 220218
Site Number NS18SE 8015
NGR NS 192 805
NGR Description NS c. 192 805
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS18SE 8015 c. 192 805
N55 59 W4 53.9
NLO: Strone Point [NS 192 805]
Holy Loch [name centred NS 175 806]
Kyles of Bute [name centred NS 040 730]
Loch Striven [name centred NS 08 72].
Possibly on map sheet NS17NE.
18 December 1896, JANET STEWART, 7 years, not reg., wood fishing boat (lugger), 4 ton, 4 men. Master and owner W. Gemmell, Newton, Ayr. Ayr to Holy Loch. Ballast. Calm. Strone Point, Argyll.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1896-97 (1898 [C.8917] LXXXVIII.401).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 916).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 December 1896). Janet Stewart: this vessel stranded at Strone Point, Loch Striven. Capt. Gemmell.
Not registered. Built 1889. 4 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 53.75 W5 5.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2002.
Loss (18 December 1896)
18 December 1896, JANET STEWART, 7 years, not reg., wood fishing boat (lugger), 4 ton, 4 men. Master and owner W. Gemmell, Newton, Ayr. Ayr to Holy Loch. Ballast. Calm. Strone Point, Argyll.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1896-97 (1898 [C.8917] LXXXVIII.401).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 916).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 18 December 1896). Janet Stewart: this vessel stranded at Strone Point, Loch Striven. Capt. Gemmell.
Not registered. Built 1889. 4 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 53.75 W5 5.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (21 August 2002)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6321
Name : JANET STEWART
Latitude : 555345
Longitude : 50500
Date Built : 1889
Registration : Not Registered
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 4
Loss Day : 18
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1896
Comment : Stranded Strone Point, Loch Striven. Capt. Gemmell
Cargo : BALLAST
