Isabella: Port Ellen, Islay, Atlantic
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Isabella: Port Ellen, Islay, Atlantic
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Leodamais
Canmore ID 255801
Site Number NR34NE 8006
NGR NR 36 45
NGR Description NR c. 36 45
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NR34NE 8006 c. 36 45
N55 38 W6 12
NLO: Port Ellen [name: NR 365 453]
Loch Leodamais [name centred NR 364 450].
Possibly on map sheet NR34SE.
8 December 1865, ISABELLA, 37 tons, Greenock, partial loss, departed Islay for Ballahulish [Ballachulish], in ballast, stranded at Port Ellen, Islay.
Statement showing the Casualties that occurred on and off the Islands on the Western Coast of Scotland, between 1st December 1865 and 30th June 1866. Wrecking in the Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1866 (1867 [3901] LXIV.235).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2290).
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), suggesting that she was successfully refloated.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 March 2004.
