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Eagle: Calva Island, Badcall Bay, North Minch
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Eagle: Calva Island, Badcall Bay, North Minch
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Calbha Beag; Calbha Mor; Atlantic; Eagle
Canmore ID 252884
Site Number NC14SW 8002
NGR NC 160 411
NGR Description NC c. 160 411
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NC14SW 8002 c. 160 411
N58 19.2 W5 8.5
NLO: Badcall Bay [name centred NC 160 411].
10 December 1885, EAGLE, 45 yrs old, registered Rye, wooden schooner, 76 tons, 4 crew. Master W. Ross, Owner S. McKenzie, Stornoway. Departed Assynt, Sutherlandshire, for Ullapool, Co. Ross, carrying fishing stock. Wind variable 1, stranded Calva Island, Badcall, near Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1901).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of fishing stock: date of loss cited as 10 December 1885). Eagle: this vessel stranded at on Calva Island, near Badcall, Sutherland. (Possibly equated with Calbha Beag or Calbha Mor). [Capt.] Ross.
Registration: Rye. Built 1840. 76 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 17.0 W5 9.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Calva Island is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map but the name presumably applies to one of the several islands in Badcall Bay. The townships of Upper and Lower Badcall are at NC 156 420 and NC 165 420 respectively.
Neither Calbha Beag nor Calbha Mor is noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 December 2003.
Loss (10 December 1885)
10 December 1885, EAGLE, 45 yrs old, registered Rye, wooden schooner, 76 tons, 4 crew. Master W. Ross, Owner S. McKenzie, Stornoway. Departed Assynt, Sutherlandshire, for Ullapool, Co. Ross, carrying fishing stock. Wind variable 1, stranded Calva Island, Badcall, near Sutherlandshire.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1885-86 (1887 [C.5196] LXXIV.449).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1901).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of fishing stock: date of loss cited as 10 December 1885). Eagle: this vessel stranded at on Calva Island, near Badcall, Sutherland. (Possibly equated with Calbha Beag or Calbha Mor). [Capt.] Ross.
Registration: Rye. Built 1840. 76 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N58 17.0 W5 9.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (16 December 2003)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Calva Island is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map but the name presumably applies to one of the several islands in Badcall Bay. The townships of Upper and Lower Badcall are at NC 156 420 and NC 165 420 respectively.
Neither Calbha Beag nor Calbha Mor is noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 December 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3476
Name : EAGLE
Latitude : 581700
Longitude : 50900
Date Built : 1840
Registration : RYE
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 76
Loss Day : 10
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1885
Comment : Stranded Calva Island, near Badcall, Sutherland (Calbha Beag/Calbha Mor ?) Ross.
Cargo : FISHING STOCK
