Advance: Port Glasgow, River Clyde
Gabbart (19th Century)
Site Name Advance: Port Glasgow, River Clyde
Classification Gabbart (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Upper Firth Of Clyde; Inner Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 259129
Site Number NS37SW 8006
NGR NS 32 74
NGR Description NS c. 32 74
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/259129
- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Maritime - Inverclyde
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS37SW 8006 c. 32 74
N55 56 W4 41
NLO: Port Glasgow [name centred NS 327 727].
Possibly on map sheet NS37NW.
Greenock, March 16, 7.45 p.m., a screw steamer collided with a lighter this afternoon, off Port Glasgow: latter sunk: captain's wife drowned.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,869, London, Thursday March 17 1881.
Greenock, March 17, 10.10 a.m., it was the new screw steamer MACAPA, on her trial trip, that collided with the gabbart ADVANCE: the latter sunk as already reported.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,870, London, Friday March 18 1881.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5146).
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 May 2004.
