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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/260699
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
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.
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
