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Banshee: Skate Island, Lower Loch Fyne, Firth Of Clyde
Wherry (19th Century)
Site Name Banshee: Skate Island, Lower Loch Fyne, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Wherry (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Skate Islands; Sgat Mor; Sgat Beag; Outer Clyde Estuary; Banshee
Canmore ID 260764
Site Number NR96NW 8009
NGR NR 93 66
NGR Description NR c. 93 66
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/260764
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NR96NW 8009 c. 93 66
N55 51 W5 18
NLO: Loch Fyne [name centred NR 94 89].
Formerly entered as NR87NE 8011 (unlocated).
31 May 1882, BANSHEE, age unknown, of Glasgow, wooden wherry, 35 tons, 2 crew, Master W. M. Kerrol, Owner A. McNicol, Greenock, departed Glasgow for Inverary, carrying coal, wind calm, stranded, total loss, Skate Island, Loch Fyne, Argyllshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3267).
(Classified as wooden wherry, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 31 May 1882). Banshee: this vessel stranded on Skate Island. Capt. Kerrol.
Registration: Glasgow. 35 tons (unspecified).
(Location of loss cited as N55 51.0 W5 18.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. The location of Skate Island cannot be established from the available map evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 July 2004.
(Re-entered as NR96NW 8011 at cited location NR c. 93 66 [N55 51 W5 18]). The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Per contra the above, the Skate Islands are probably to be equated with Sgat Mor [name: NR 930 666] and Sgat Beag [name: NR 942 665] off the SW side of the Cowal peninsula.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 27 November 2009.
Loss (31 May 1882)
31 May 1882, BANSHEE, age unknown, of Glasgow, wooden wherry, 35 tons, 2 crew, Master W. M. Kerrol, Owner A. McNicol, Greenock, departed Glasgow for Inverary, carrying coal, wind calm, stranded, total loss, Skate Island, Loch Fyne, Argyllshire.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3267).
(Classified as wooden wherry, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 31 May 1882). Banshee: this vessel stranded on Skate Island. Capt. Kerrol.
Registration: Glasgow. 35 tons (unspecified).
(Location of loss cited as N55 51.0 W5 18.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (7 July 2004)
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. The location of Skate Island cannot be established from the available map evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 7 July 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 978
Name : BANSHEE
Latitude : 555100
Longitude : 51830
Registration : GLASGOW
Type : WHERRY (WOOD)
Tonnage : 35
Loss Day : 31
Loss Month : 5
Loss Year : 1882
Comment : Stranded on Skate Island. Capt. Kerrol
Cargo : COAL
