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Sisters: Corpach, Loch Eil
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Sisters: Corpach, Loch Eil
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Linnhe; Fort William; Sisters
Canmore ID 255292
Site Number NN07NE 8004
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 8004 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.
Inverness, 5th Jan. The SISTERS (schr.), of Aberdeen, McKenzie, from Riga to Londonderry, with linseed, caught fire while at anchor in the roads in the night of 3rd Jan., and was run ashore at Loch Eil, where she burnt to the water's edge: nothing saved but a few spars and sails and about a dozen barrels of linseed in a damaged state.
Source: LL, No. 16,456, London, Wednesday, January 9 1867.
Inverness, 8th Jan. There are about 300 barrels of damaged linseed in the bottom of the SISTERS, McKenzie, from Riga to Londonderry, which was burnt in the night of 3rd Jan., at Loch Eil.
Source: LL, No. 16,457, London, Thursday, January 10 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11166).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of linseed: date of loss cited as 3 January 1867). Sisters: this vessel caught fire at anchor, and [was] beached at Loch Eil, near Corpach. Capt. McKenzie.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1865. 153grt. Length: 28m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 51.0 W5 10.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 March 2004.
Loss (3 January 1867)
Inverness, 5th Jan. The SISTERS (schr.), of Aberdeen, McKenzie, from Riga to Londonderry, with linseed, caught fire while at anchor in the roads in the night of 3rd Jan., and was run ashore at Loch Eil, where she burnt to the water's edge: nothing saved but a few spars and sails and about a dozen barrels of linseed in a damaged state.
Source: LL, No. 16,456, London, Wednesday, January 9 1867.
Inverness, 8th Jan. There are about 300 barrels of damaged linseed in the bottom of the SISTERS, McKenzie, from Riga to Londonderry, which was burnt in the night of 3rd Jan., at Loch Eil.
Source: LL, No. 16,457, London, Thursday, January 10 1867.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11166).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of linseed: date of loss cited as 3 January 1867). Sisters: this vessel caught fire at anchor, and [was] beached at Loch Eil, near Corpach. Capt. McKenzie.
Registration: Aberdeen. Built 1865. 153grt. Length: 28m. Beam: 7m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 51.0 W5 10.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (8 March 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 March 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13222
Name : SISTERS
Latitude : 565100
Longitude : 51000
Date Built : 1865
Registration : ABERDEEN
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 153
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 28
Beam : 7
Loss Day : 3
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1867
Comment : Fire at anchor and beached at Loch Eil, near Corpach. Capt. MacKenzie
Cargo : LINSEED
