Elizabeths: Carna, Loch Sunart
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Elizabeths: Carna, Loch Sunart
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Carna Island; Carna Isle; Charna; Elizabeths
Canmore ID 252817
Site Number NM65NW 8001
NGR NM 62 59
NGR Description NM c. 62 59
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NM65NW 8001 c. 62 59
N56 40 W5 53
NLO: Carna [name: NM 620 590]
Loch Sunart [name centred NM 75 60].
Possibly on map sheet NM66SW.
6 January 1882, ELIZABETHS, 42 yrs old, of Glasgow, wooden smack, 37 tons, 2 crew, Master W. Boyd, Owner J. Waugh, senr., Rothesay, Buteshire, departed Tobermory, Argyllshire, for Ballachulish, Argyllshire, in ballast, wind W10, stranded, total loss, Carna Island, Loch Sunart, Argyllshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3251).
(Classified as wooden smack, in ballast: date of loss cited as 6 January 1882). Elizabeths: this vessel stranded on Carna Isle, Loch Sunart. capt. Boyd.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1840. 37 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N56 40.0 W5 53.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 December 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3824
Name : ELIZABETHS
Latitude : 564000
Longitude : 55300
Date Built : 1840
Registration : GLASGOW
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 37
Loss Day : 6
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1882
Comment : Stranded Carna Isle, Loch Sunart. Capt. Boyd
Cargo : BALLAST
