Nanny Latham: Portantruan, Port Ellen, Islay, Atlantic
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Nanny Latham: Portantruan, Port Ellen, Islay, Atlantic
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Portantruam; Loch Leodamais; Nanny Latham
Canmore ID 260696
Site Number NR34NE 8008
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 8008 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.
12 November 1881, NANNY LATHAM, 14 yrs old, of Lancaster, wooden schooner, 66 tons, 3 crew, Master C. W. Griffiths, Owner W. Postlethwaite, Millom, Cumberland, departed Lough Swilly for Cardiff, carrying potatoes, wind SSW10, stranded, total loss, Portantruan, near Port Ellen, Islay, Argyllshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1881-82 (1883 [C.3487] LXIII.135).
Port Ellen, Nov. 22, NANNY LATHAM schooner, Griffiths, from Loch Quily for Cardiff (potatoes), has stranded here, and it is feared that she will become a total wreck. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3219).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of potatoes: date of loss cited as 21 November 1881). Nanny Latham: this vessel stranded at Portantruam, near Port Ellen. Capt. Griffiths.
Registration: Lancaster. Built 1867. 66nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 36.00 W6 10.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Neither Portantruan nor Portantruam is noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 July 2004.
Loss (21 November 1881)
12 November 1881, NANNY LATHAM, 14 yrs old, of Lancaster, wooden schooner, 66 tons, 3 crew, Master C. W. Griffiths, Owner W. Postlethwaite, Millom, Cumberland, departed Lough Swilly for Cardiff, carrying potatoes, wind SSW10, stranded, total loss, Portantruan, near Port Ellen, Islay, Argyllshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1881-82 (1883 [C.3487] LXIII.135).
Port Ellen, Nov. 22, NANNY LATHAM schooner, Griffiths, from Loch Quily for Cardiff (potatoes), has stranded here, and it is feared that she will become a total wreck. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3219).
(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of potatoes: date of loss cited as 21 November 1881). Nanny Latham: this vessel stranded at Portantruam, near Port Ellen. Capt. Griffiths.
Registration: Lancaster. Built 1867. 66nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 36.00 W6 10.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (2 July 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Neither Portantruan nor Portantruam is noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 July 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3676
Name : NANNY LATHAM
Latitude : 553600
Longitude : 61000
Date Built : 1867
Registration : LANCASTER
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 66
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 21
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1881
Comment : Stranded Portantruam, near Port Ellen. Capt. Griffiths
Cargo : POTATOES
