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Rover: North Minch
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Rover: North Minch
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Stoer Head; Store Head; 'off Point Of Stoer, Minch'; Rover
Canmore ID 260565
Site Number NB94SE 8001
NGR NB 95 43
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/260565
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NB94SE 8001 unlocated
NLO: Point of Stoer [name: NC 022 356].
Formerly entered as NC03SW 8002 (unlocated).
Possibly within Maritime - Western Isles.
Stornoway, Jan., the ROVER (schnr.), Ross, of and for Glasgow, from Thurso, with pavement, lost both masts, off Store head [Point of Stoer] during a gale, 10th Jan., and was abandoned next day: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,018, London, Thursday January 18 [1872].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3716).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 10 January 1872). Rover: this vessel was abandoned off Point of Stoer, Minch. Capt. Ross.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1833. 52grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 20.0 W5 30.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet, quasi-administrative area and date assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being those of the reported circumstances of abandonment. It remains unclear whether and where this vessel subsequently stranded or foundered.
The loss may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area that is designated as Maritime - Western Isles.
The map sheet cited is derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. Point of Stoer lighthouse (NC03SW 6) is at NC 0037 3296.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 2004.
Loss (10 January 1872)
Stornoway, Jan., the ROVER (schnr.), Ross, of and for Glasgow, from Thurso, with pavement, lost both masts, off Store head [Point of Stoer] during a gale, 10th Jan., and was abandoned next day: crew saved.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,018, London, Thursday January 18 [1872].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3716).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of pavement: date of loss cited as 10 January 1872). Rover: this vessel was abandoned off Point of Stoer, Minch. Capt. Ross.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1833. 52grt. Length: 19m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N58 20.0 W5 30.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (30 June 2004)
The map sheet, quasi-administrative area and date assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being those of the reported circumstances of abandonment. It remains unclear whether and where this vessel subsequently stranded or foundered.
The loss may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area that is designated as Maritime - Western Isles.
The map sheet cited is derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. Point of Stoer lighthouse (NC03SW 6) is at NC 0037 3296.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 30 June 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5393
Name : ROVER
Latitude : 582000
Longitude : 53000
Date Built : 1833
Registration : GLASGOW
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 52
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 19
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 10
Loss Month : 1
Loss Year : 1872
Comment : Abandoned off Point of Stoer, Minch. Capt. Ross
Cargo : PAVEMENT
