Agnes: Loch Hourn, Sound Of Sleat
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Agnes: Loch Hourn, Sound Of Sleat
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sleat Sound; Sea Of The Hebrides
Canmore ID 265316
Site Number NG80NW 8002
NGR NG
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NG80NW 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.
Not to be confused with NG80NW 8002.
Glasgow, 26th Oct., the AGNES of this port, with 40 barrels of herrings on board, went ashore at Loch Hourn during the recent gale and had one side crushed in.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,882, London, Wednesday October [26 1874].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4175).
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 September 2004.
