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Samuel: Loch Broom

Sloop (19th Century)

Site Name Samuel: Loch Broom

Classification Sloop (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'Near Inverness'; Lochbroom; Ullapool; North Minch; Samuel

Canmore ID 270477

Site Number NH09NE 8006

NGR NH 07 96

Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NH09NE 8006 unlocated

NLO: Inverness [name: NH 665 455]

Ullapool [name: NH 125 942]

Loch Broom [name centred NH 10 93].

See also NH19SW 8015 and NH19SW 8016.

Possibly on map sheets or NH19SW.

Formerly entered as NH19SE 8002 (unlocated).

The SAMUEL, Murray, of Stornoway: the NANCY, McLeod: and the ROSLIN CASTLE, of Stornoway, were lost near Inverness in the late gales.

Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4206, London, Tuesday November 24 1807.

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5594).

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 4 November 1807). Samuel: this vessel was wrecked at Loch Broom. Capt. Murray.

Registration: Stornoway. Built 1790. 28 tons burthen. Length: 11m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 55.0 W5 15.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 February 2005.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 8121

Name : SAMUEL

Latitude : 575500

Longitude : 51500

Date Built : 1790

Registration : STORNOWAY

Type : SLOOP

Tonnage : 28

Tonnage Code : B

Length : 11

Beam : 4

Loss Day : 4

Loss Month : 11

Loss Year : 1807

Comment : Wrecked at Loch Broom. Capt. Murray

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