Elizabeth And Isabella: Arisaig, Sound Of Arisaig
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Elizabeth And Isabella: Arisaig, Sound Of Arisaig
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Elizabeth & Isabella; Ardnamurchan Point; Rum Harbour; Rhum; Arasaig; Sea Of The Hebrides
Canmore ID 252993
Site Number NM68NE 8002
NGR NM 663 858
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/252993
- Council Highland
- Parish Arisaig And Moidart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM68NE 8002 unlocated
NLO: Arisaig [name centred NM 66 87]
Point of Ardnamurchan [name: NM 415 675]
Sound of Arisaig [name centred NM 65 80]
Rum [name centred NM 36 99].
Formerly also entered as NM68NW 8013 (unlocated).
6 January 1882, ELIZABETH AND ISABELLA, 23 yrs old, of Glasgow, wooden smack, 47 tons, 3 crew, Master and Owner H. McLean, Tobermory, Argyllshire, departed Arasaig, Co. Inverness, for Ardrossan, carrying wood, wind SW10, stranded, total loss, Arasaig, Co. Inverness.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1881-82 (1883 [C.3487] LXIII.135).
ELIZABETH & ISABELLA sloop, of Tobermory, McBean, was driven from Ardnamurchan Point to Rum, and went ashore there: crew saved. The vessel afterwards floated and drove ashore at Arisaig, where she was found, derelict, after the gale of Jan. 6. (Glasgow, Jan. 18).
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 21,133, London, Friday January 20 1882.
ELIZABETH & ISABELLA smack, of and for Glasgow, McLean, from Arisaig (wood), drove ashore Jan. 6, in Rum Harbour, during a hurricane, and went to pieces on the rocks. The cargo was strewn on the shore. (Tobermory, Jan. [report received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3250).
(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of wood; date of loss cited as 6 January 1882). Elizabeth & Isabella: this vessel stranded at Arasaig [Arisaig], Inverness. Capt. McLean.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1859. 47 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N56 54.5 W5 50.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 December 2003.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3696
Name : ELIZABETH & ISABELLA
Latitude : 565430
Longitude : 55030
Date Built : 1859
Registration : GLASGOW
Type : SMACK (WOOD)
Tonnage : 47
Loss Day : 6
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1882
Comment : Stranded Arasaig, Inverness. Capt. McLean
Cargo : WOOD