Grace Darling: Carradale Beach, Kintyre, Kilbrannan Sound, Firth Of Clyde
Ketch (19th Century)
Site Name Grace Darling: Carradale Beach, Kintyre, Kilbrannan Sound, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Ketch (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Carradale Bay; Outer Clyde Estuary; Grace Darling
Canmore ID 220236
Site Number NR83NW 8006
NGR NR 809 369
NGR Description NR c. 809 369
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
NR83NW 8006 c. 809 369
N55 34.6 W5 28.6
NLO: Carradale [name: NR 813 383]
Carradale Bay [name centred NR 809 369]
Carradale Point [name: NR 815 362]
Kilbrannan Sound [name centred NR 83 40].
Not to be confused with the 1859 loss of the same name nearby, for which see NR83NW 8005.
17 October 1897 GRACE DARLING, 30 years, of Fleetwood. Wood ketch. 43 ton, 3 men. Master C. Dempsey. Owner A. Hull, Belfast. Belfast to Loch Fyne. Ballast. Wind S9. Carradale Beach, Cantyre.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 801).
(Classified as wooden ketch, in ballast: date of loss cited as 17 October 1897). Grace Darling: this vessel stranded at Carradale beach. Capt. Dempsey.
Registration: Fleetwood. Built 1867. 43 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 34.50 W5 28.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Carradale Beach is presumably the extensive beach along the N side of Carradale Bay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2002.
Loss (17 October 1897)
17 October 1897 GRACE DARLING, 30 years, of Fleetwood. Wood ketch. 43 ton, 3 men. Master C. Dempsey. Owner A. Hull, Belfast. Belfast to Loch Fyne. Ballast. Wind S9. Carradale Beach, Cantyre.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1897-98 (1899 [C.9384] LXXXVII.409).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 801).
(Classified as wooden ketch, in ballast: date of loss cited as 17 October 1897). Grace Darling: this vessel stranded at Carradale beach. Capt. Dempsey.
Registration: Fleetwood. Built 1867. 43 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 34.50 W5 28.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (21 August 2002)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Carradale Beach is presumably the extensive beach along the N side of Carradale Bay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4117
Name : GRACE DARLING
Latitude : 553430
Longitude : 52830
Date Built : 1867
Registration : FLEETWOOD
Type : KETCH (WOOD)
Tonnage : 43
Loss Day : 17
Loss Month : 10
Loss Year : 1897
Comment : Stranded at Carradale beach. Capt. Dempsey
Cargo : BALLAST
