Katinka: Callert, Ballachulish, Loch Leven
Steam Yacht (19th Century)
Site Name Katinka: Callert, Ballachulish, Loch Leven
Classification Steam Yacht (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Chetah; Cheetah; Callart; Loch Linnhe
Canmore ID 255284
Site Number NN06SE 8002
NGR NN 09 60
NGR Description NN c. 09 60
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NN06SE 8002 c. 09 60
N56 42 W5 7
NLO: North Ballachulish [name centred NN 055 605]
South Ballachulish [name centred NN 051 950]
Ballachulish [village]: [name centred NN 080 583]
Loch Leven [name centred NN 09 59]
Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47].
Possibly on map sheets NN05NE, or NN16SW.
Fort William, 16th Sept., 12.20 p.m., the KATINKA (screw schooner-yacht, late CHETAH), parted from her moorings and dragged anchor ashore 9.50 last night: hole in her amidships: lying bad place. Still blowing hard.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,091, London, Tuesday September 17 1878.
Oban, 18th Sept., 8.40 p.m, deputy went this day, by request, to Callart by Ballachulish to inspect KATINKA (s): found two plates under bilge stove in and torn, cabin fittings totally smashed, vessel in a precarious position and would require engineers at once to repair temporarily, in order to have her taken to where repair could be effected. Tide flows in and out. Wire instructions. [Report received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4758).
The location assigned to this record is inferred: Callert or Callart House (NNO6SE 1) is at NN 0924 6038. The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), and she may have been returned satisfactorily to service.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 March 2004.
