Grace Carry: Cloch Point, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Grace Carry: Cloch Point, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Inner Clyde Estuary; Cloch Lighthouse; Grace Carry
Canmore ID 265443
Site Number NS27NW 8109
NGR NS 202 758
NGR Description NS c. 202 758
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Maritime - Inverclyde
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS27NW 8109 c. 202 758
N55 56.5 W4 52.8
NLO: Cloch Point [name: NS 202 758].
Location formerly entered as NS c. 20 76 [N55 57 W4 53].
Gourock, 9th Mar., 1.15 p.m., the fishing smack GRACE CARRY, 8 tons, from Tignabruaich to Glasgow, is ashore at Cloch [Point] light, and will become a total wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,995, London, Wednesday March 10 [1875].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4210).
(Classified as fishing smack: date of loss cited as 9 March 1875). Grace Carry: this vessel was wrecked at Cloch Point.
8nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 57.00 W4 54.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Cloch [Point] Lighthouse (NS27NW 16) is at NS 20319 75877.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 September 2004.
Loss (9 March 1875)
Gourock, 9th Mar., 1.15 p.m., the fishing smack GRACE CARRY, 8 tons, from Tignabruaich to Glasgow, is ashore at Cloch [Point] light, and will become a total wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,995, London, Wednesday March 10 [1875].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4210).
(Classified as fishing smack: date of loss cited as 9 March 1875). Grace Carry: this vessel was wrecked at Cloch Point.
8nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N55 57.00 W4 54.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (22 September 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Cloch [Point] Lighthouse (NS27NW 16) is at NS 20319 75877.
This vessel evidently stranded.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 September 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13278
Name : GRACE CARRY
Latitude : 555700
Longitude : 45400
Type : FISHING SMACK
Tonnage : 8
Tonnage Code : N
Loss Day : 9
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1875
Comment : Wrecked at Cloch Point.
