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Swift: Corpach, Loch Eil
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Swift: Corpach, Loch Eil
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Linnhe; Fort William
Canmore ID 255282
Site Number NN07NE 8003
NGR NN 09 76
NGR Description NN c. 09 76
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NN07NE 8003 c. 09 76
N56 50 W5 8
NLO: Loch Eil [name centred NN 02 77]
Corpach [name: NN 099 769]
Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47]
Fort William [name: NN 105 740].
Possibly on map sheet NN17NW.
SWIFT, of Arbroath, Corpach to Ardbeg, Islay, stranded, 8th Dec., one mile W of Fort William.
Source: Abstract of Board of Trade Casualty Returns, Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,547, London, Saturday December 16 1876.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4491).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 March 2004.
