Active: Lagavulin Harbour, Islay, Atlantic
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Active: Lagavulin Harbour, Islay, Atlantic
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Lagavuillin Harbour; Lagavulin Bay; Active
Canmore ID 271775
Site Number NR44NW 8012
NGR NR 403 456
NGR Description NR c. 403 456
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/271775
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NR44NW 8012 c. 403 456
N55 38.1 W6 7.6
NLO: Lagavulin Bay [name centred NR 407 451].
Bowmore, Isle of Islay, 27th March. 'The ACTIVE of Islay, McDougall, from Coleraine to Tobermory, is lost in Lagavuillin Harbour, about 14 miles south of this place, with all her cargo except about four bolls of meal.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5792, London, Tuesday April 8 1823.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6310).
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 27 March 1823). Active: this vessel was lost at Lagavuillin [Lagavulin, Islay] Harbour, 14 miles South of Bowmore. Capt. McDougall.
Registration: Campbeltown. Built 1818. 29 tons burthern.
(Location of loss cited as N55 38.00 W6 8.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Lagavulin has no artificial harbour. The term probably applies to Lagavulin Bay.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 April 2005.
Loss (27 March 1823)
Bowmore, Isle of Islay, 27th March. 'The ACTIVE of Islay, McDougall, from Coleraine to Tobermory, is lost in Lagavuillin Harbour, about 14 miles south of this place, with all her cargo except about four bolls of meal.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5792, London, Tuesday April 8 1823.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6310).
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 27 March 1823). Active: this vessel was lost at Lagavuillin [Lagavulin, Islay] Harbour, 14 miles South of Bowmore. Capt. McDougall.
Registration: Campbeltown. Built 1818. 29 tons burthern.
(Location of loss cited as N55 38.00 W6 8.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (11 April 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Lagavulin has no artificial harbour. The term probably applies to Lagavulin Bay.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 April 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13711
Name : ACTIVE
Latitude : 553800
Longitude : 60800
Date Built : 1818
Registration : CAMPBELTOWN
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 29
Tonnage Code : B
Loss Day : 27
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1823
Comment : Lost at Lagavuillin Harbour, 14 miles south of Bowmore. Capt. McDougall