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Rose: Sound Of Raasay

Lugger (19th Century)

Site Name Rose: Sound Of Raasay

Classification Lugger (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'Between Portree And Raasay'; Rose

Canmore ID 253848

Site Number NG54SW 8002

NGR NG 53 43

Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Maritime - Highland
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NG54SW 8002 unlocated

NLO: Isle of Raasay [name centred NG 56 41]

Sound of Raasay [name centred NG 55 55]

Portree [name: NG 483 437].

7th February 1885, ROSE, age unknown, not registered, wooden lugger, unknown tonnage, say 2 tons, 3 crew. Departed Raasay Island for fishing, in ballast. Capsized, 3 lives lost. Wind W squally. Between Portree and Raasay, Co. Inverness.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1991).

(Classified as Lugsail [lugger]: date of loss cited as 7 February 1885). Rose: this vessel capsized between Portree and Raasay.

Not registered. 2 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N57 25.0 W6 6.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 January 2004.

Activities

Loss (7 February 1885)

7th February 1885, ROSE, age unknown, not registered, wooden lugger, unknown tonnage, say 2 tons, 3 crew. Departed Raasay Island for fishing, in ballast. Capsized, 3 lives lost. Wind W squally. Between Portree and Raasay, Co. Inverness.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1884-85 (1887 [C.5094] LXXIV.247).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1991).

(Classified as Lugsail [lugger]: date of loss cited as 7 February 1885). Rose: this vessel capsized between Portree and Raasay.

Not registered. 2 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N57 25.0 W6 6.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (27 January 2004)

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 January 2004.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 13786

Name : ROSE

Latitude : 572500

Longitude : 60600

Registration : Not Registered

Type : LUGSAIL

Tonnage : 2

Loss Day : 7

Loss Month : 2

Loss Year : 1885

Comment : Capsized between Portree and Raasay.

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