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Marchioness Of Bute: Sea Of The Hebrides
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Marchioness Of Bute: Sea Of The Hebrides
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Ardnamuchan Point'; Ardnamurchan Point; Point Of Ardnamurchan; Sound Of Mull; Atlantic; Muck; Marchioness Of Bute
Canmore ID 255429
Site Number NM46NW 8006
NGR NM 40 68
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/255429
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NM46NW 8006 unlocated
NLO: Point of Ardnamurchan [name: NM 415 675]
Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46]
Tobermory [name: NM 505 555]
Muck [name centred NM 40 79].
Possibly on map sheet NM47NW.
Tobermory, 29th Nov. The MARCHIONESS OF BUTE (smack), Black, from Lohnevis, with herrings, foundered off the Point of Ardnamurchan 25th Nov.: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,248, London, Saturday December 3 1859.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9765).
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 25 November 1859). Marchioness of Bute: this vessel foundered off Ardnamuchan [Ardnamurchan] Point, or was wrecked on Muck.
Registration: Rothesay. Built 1805. 29 tons burthern. Length: 12m. Beam: 3m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 44.0 W6 15.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. The vessel may have been lost within the quasi-administrative area defined as Maritime - Argyll and Bute.
The alternative location of loss ('on Muck') that is cited by Whittaker also remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 March 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5273
Name : MARCHIONESS OF BUTE
Latitude : 564400
Longitude : 61500
Date Built : 1805
Registration : ROTHESAY
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 29
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 12
Beam : 3
Loss Day : 25
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1859
Comment : Foundered off Ardnamuchan Point, or wrecked on Muck.
