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Arvon: Applecross, Inner Sound
Cutter (20th Century)
Site Name Arvon: Applecross, Inner Sound
Classification Cutter (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Torridon
Canmore ID 249402
Site Number NG74SW 8004
NGR NG
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NG74SW 8004 unlocated
NLO: Applecross [name: NG 711 445]
Loch Torridon [name centred NG 76 59]
Inner Sound [name centred NG 64 40].
Formerly entered as NG76SW 8004 (unlocated).
2 November 1853, ARVON, of Caernarvon, Newcastle to Galway, foundered, North coast of Applecross, Rosshire, after striking a sunken rock. Crew saved. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1853 (1854 (337) XLII.647).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 467).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo cited but date of loss cited as 2 November 1853). This vessel 'foundered' [sic.] on the N coast of Applecross, Ross-shire.
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2003.
