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Royal Victoria: Ross Of Mull, Atlantic
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Royal Victoria: Ross Of Mull, Atlantic
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Scoor Russ; Royal Victoria
Canmore ID 255377
Site Number NM41NW 8002
NGR NM 4223 1818
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/255377
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NM41NW 8002 unlocated
NLO: Ross of Mull [name centred NM 37 20].
Tobermory, 20th Mar. The ROYAL VICTORIA (schr.), of and for Belfast, from Loughswilly, drifted off Innishowen Head, and stranded at Scoor Russ [Ross of Mull], Mull, 11th Mar., and is expected to become a total wreck.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,344, London, Saturday March 24 1860.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9832).
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as 11 March 1860). Royal Victoria: this vessel stranded at Scoor Russ [Ross of Mull]. Expected wreck. Registration: Belfast.
(Location of loss cited as N56 17.25 W6 10.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The location of Scoor Russ cannot be ascertained from the available map evidence, but the name presumably applies to the extensive Ross of Mull.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 March 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 11119
Name : ROYAL VICTORIA
Latitude : 561715
Longitude : 61000
Registration : BELFAST
Type : SCHOONER
Loss Day : 11
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1860
Comment : Stranded at Scoor Ross, Mull. Expected wreck.
