Janet: Loch Duich

NH64NW 8005 unlocated

NLO: Kyleakin [name: NG 754 263]

Loch Alsh [name centred NG 80 25]

Kyle Akin [name centred NG 758 268].

Loch Duich [name centred NG 91 21].

Possibly on map sheet or NG92SW.

21 October 1874, JANET, 90 yrs old, of Greenock, wooden sloop, 38 tons, 4 crew, Master J. Ferguson, Owner J. McLean, departed Loch Duich for Greenock, carrying herrings, wind NW9, stranded, mouth of Loch Duich Harbour, Hebrides.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1874 - 75 (1875 [C.1341] LXX.501).

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2504).

Glasgow, 26th Oct., the JANET, of Greenock, sank at her moorings in Loch Duich during the last gale.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,882, London, Wednesday October 1874.

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4171).

Glasgow, 26th Oct., the JANET THOMAS, of Kyleakin, (also) sank at her moorings on the 21st Oct.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,882, London, Wednesday October [21 1874].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4172).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 21 October 1874). Janet (or Janet Thomas): this vessel sank at moorings in Loch Duich. Registration: Greenock.

(Location of loss cited as N57 30.0 W4 20.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Loch Duich harbour cannot be identified from the available map evidence, and the term probably applies to the loch as a whole.

The citation of this loss by Whittaker within his record of losses on the E side of Scotland is anomalous.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 April 2004.