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Benjamin: Loch Hourn, Sound Of Sleat

Sloop (19th Century)

Site Name Benjamin: Loch Hourn, Sound Of Sleat

Classification Sloop (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Sleat Sound; Sea Of The Hebrides; Benjamin

Canmore ID 260699

Site Number NG81SW 8002

NGR NG 84 10

Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Maritime - Highland
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NG81SW 8002 unlocated

NLO: Loch Hourn [name centred NG 83 08]

Sound of Sleat [name centred NG 72 09].

Possibly on map sheets NG71SE, NG81SW, or NG90NW.

22 November 1881, BENJAMIN, 38 yrs old, of Campbeltown, wooden sloop, 38 tons, 4 crew, master J. McMennany, Owner W. MacLachlan, Glasgow, anchored in Loch Hourn, Sleat Sound [Sound of Sleat], Island of Skye, carrying cured herrings and 4 women for curing herrings, wind WSW10, stranded, total loss, Loch Hourn, Sleat Sound [Sound of Sleat], Inverness.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3227).

(Classified as wooden sloop, with cargo of cured herring: date of loss cited as 22 November 1881). Benjamin: this vessel stranded at Loch Hourn, Sleat Sound [Sound of Sleat]. Capt. McMennany.

Registration: Campbeltown. Built 1843. 38 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N57 8.0 W5 34.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 July 2004.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 3681

Name : BENJAMIN

Latitude : 570800

Longitude : 53400

Date Built : 1843

Registration : CAMPBELTOWN

Type : SLOOP (WOOD)

Tonnage : 38

Loss Day : 22

Loss Month : 11

Loss Year : 1881

Comment : Stranded Loch Hourn, Sleat Sound. Capt. McMennany

Cargo : CURED HERRING

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