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Eliza: Ornsay Harbour, Sound Of Sleat
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Eliza: Ornsay Harbour, Sound Of Sleat
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Isle Ornsay Harbour; Skye; Atlantic; Sea Of The Hebrides; Eliza
Canmore ID 259704
Site Number NG71SW 8006
NGR NG 705 128
NGR Description NG c. 705 128
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NG71SW 8006 c. 705 128
N57 8.9 W5 47.7
NLO: Ornsay [name centred NG 710 127]
Sound of Sleat [name centred NG 72 09]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
See also NG71SW 8005.
Location formerly entered as NG c. 710 127 [N57 8.9 W5 47.2].
Isle Ornsay, 23d Sept. 'Yesterday evening a heavy gale came on suddenly form the South. Four vessels in attempting the harbor, struck on the rocks at the back of the Island. Two of them got off immediately, but the HENRY & WILLIAM ALLAN, from Aberdeen, for Corpack [Corpach], is totally wrecked, and the ELIZA, McClure, from Orkney to Glasgow, it is feared will share the same fate, as the gale continues.' [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7090).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 22 September 1835). Eliza: this vessel was wrecked at Isle Ornsay. Capt. Allan. Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N57 8.0 W5 47.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Ornsay harbour is presumably the area between Ornsay (to the SE) and the island of Skye (to the W and NW). The 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map notes harbour [NAT] around NG 705 128.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 June 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 12719
Name : ELIZA
Latitude : 570800
Longitude : 54700
Registration : BRITISH
Type : SLOOP
Loss Day : 22
Loss Month : 9
Loss Year : 1835
Comment : Stranded at Isle Ornsay.
Cargo : HERRING
