Loch Sloy: Arran, Firth Of Clyde
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Loch Sloy: Arran, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Approximately 1 Mile Sw Of Bennan Head'; Outer Clyde Estuary; Loch Sloy
Canmore ID 251687
Site Number NX08SE 8056
NGR NX 08 84
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/251687
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - South Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NR91NE 8002 unlocated
NLO: Bennan Head [name: NR 991 201].
Possibly on map sheet NS01NW.
29 December 1893, LOCH SLOY, 23 years, of Glasgow. Wood smack. 29 ton. 2 men. Master D.K. Wakefield. Owner D. Stalker, Ardentinny, Argyllshire. Troon to Campbeltown. Coal. Wind WSW1. About 1 mile SW of Benan [Bennan] Head, Arran.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1203).
(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 29 December 1893). Loch Sloy: this vessel stranded approximately 1 mile SW of Bennan Head. Capt. Wakefield.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1870. 37grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 7.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Bennan Head is the southernmost point of Arran, so the cited location suggests that the vessel foundered rather than stranded, as is suggested by Whittaker. The available ewvidence does not contradict this view.
A location of loss off Arran is preferred over one off South Ayrshire, as is suggested by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 October 2003.
Loss (29 December 1893)
29 December 1893, LOCH SLOY, 23 years, of Glasgow. Wood smack. 29 ton. 2 men. Master D.K. Wakefield. Owner D. Stalker, Ardentinny, Argyllshire. Troon to Campbeltown. Coal. Wind WSW1. About 1 mile SW of Benan [Bennan] Head, Arran.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1203).
(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 29 December 1893). Loch Sloy: this vessel stranded approximately 1 mile SW of Bennan Head. Capt. Wakefield.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1870. 37grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 7.0 W5 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (29 October 2003)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Bennan Head is the southernmost point of Arran, so the cited location suggests that the vessel foundered rather than stranded, as is suggested by Whittaker. The available ewvidence does not contradict this view.
A location of loss off Arran is preferred over one off South Ayrshire, as is suggested by Whittaker.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 October 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5977
Name : LOCH SLOY
Latitude : 550700
Longitude : 50000
Date Built : 1870
Registration : GLASGOW
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 37
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 19
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 29
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1893
Comment : Stranded approx 1 mile SW of Bennan Head. Capt. Wakefield
Cargo : COAL
