Mary Mackenzie: Sound Of Mull

NM73NE 8014 unlocated

NLO: Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47]

Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46].

Formerly entered as NM74SW 8011 (unlocated).

Possibly within Maritime - Highland.

Tobermory, 6th Apl. The MARY MACKENZIE (schnr.), of Stornoway, from Larne, with shell lime, struck on a rock at the entrance to the Sound of Mull 31st Mar., and immediately after took fire, and has become a total wreck.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,735, London, Monday April 12 1858.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9496).

(Classified as brigantine with cargo of shell lime: date of loss cited as 31 March 1858). Mary McKenzie: this vessel stranded on rocks SW [possibly SE] end of Mull, or at entrance to the Sound of Mull, fire, total wreck.

Registration: Stornoway. Built 1841. 76 tons burthern. Length: 17m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N56 28.0 W5 36.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker. The available accounts are confused to the point of being contradictory, particularly as regarding location and classification.

The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area defined as Maritime - Highland.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 March 2004.