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Hussar: Skye, Little Minch

Craft (19th Century)

Site Name Hussar: Skye, Little Minch

Classification Craft (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'On The Isle Of Sky'; Isle Of Skye; Sea Of The Hebrides; North Minch; Hussar

Canmore ID 270400

Site Number NG21NE 8002

NGR NG 28 17

Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/270400

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NG21NE 8002 unlocated

NLO: Skye [name centred NG 45 35].

The HUSSAR privateer, of Liverpool, is lost on the Isle of Sky [Skye].

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4402, London, Tuesday November 15 1803

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5501).

(Classified as privateer: date of loss cited as November 1803). Hussar: this vessel was lost on Skye.

Registration: British.

(Location of loss cited as N57 10 W6 30).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is entirely arbitrary. It remains uncertain on which side of the island the stranding occurred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 February 2005.

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Loss (November 1803)

The HUSSAR privateer, of Liverpool, is lost on the Isle of Sky [Skye].

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4402, London, Tuesday November 15 1803

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5501).

(Classified as privateer: date of loss cited as November 1803). Hussar: this vessel was lost on Skye.

Registration: British.

(Location of loss cited as N57 10 W6 30).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (8 February 2005)

The map sheet assigned to this record is entirely arbitrary; it remains uncertain on which side of the island the stranding occurred.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 February 2005.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 7945

Name : HUSSAR

Latitude : 571000

Longitude : 63000

Registration : BRITISH

Type : PRIVATEER

Loss Month : 11

Loss Year : 1803

Comment : Lost on Skye

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