Commercial Packet: Ardmore Point, Skye, Little Minch
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Commercial Packet: Ardmore Point, Skye, Little Minch
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ardmore, Islay; Ardmore Bay; Loch Bay; Commercial Packet
Canmore ID 271846
Site Number NG25NW 8002
NGR NG 218 598
NGR Description NG c. 218 598
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NG25NW 8002 c. 218 598
N57 32.6 W6 39
NLO: Ardmore Point [name: NG 218 598]
Loch Bay [name centred NG 260 555]
Islay [name centred NR 38 60]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
Ardmore, Isle of Skye, 29 Dec. 'The whole of the cargo, and some of the materials of the COMMERCIAL PACKET, from Stromness to Newry, lately wrecked near here, have been saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5976, London, Tuesday January 11 1825.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6394).
(No classification specified: cargo cited as herring, and date of loss as November 1824). Commercial Packet: this vessel was wrecked near Ardmore, Islay. Stromness-Newry.
(Location of loss cited as N55 41.00 W6 1.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. That cited by Whittaker is evidently incorrect, as the vessel stranded on Skye, rather than Islay.
The date of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 April 2005.
Loss (1 November 1824 - 30 November 1824)
Ardmore, Isle of Skye, 29 Dec. 'The whole of the cargo, and some of the materials of the COMMERCIAL PACKET, from Stromness to Newry, lately wrecked near here, have been saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 5976, London, Tuesday January 11 1825.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6394).
(No classification specified: cargo cited as herring, and date of loss as November 1824). Commercial Packet: this vessel was wrecked near Ardmore, Islay. Stromness-Newry.
(Location of loss cited as N55 41.00 W6 1.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (12 April 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. That cited by Whittaker is evidently incorrect, as the vessel stranded on Skye, rather than Islay.
The date of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 April 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13550
Name : COMMERCIAL PACKET
Latitude : 554100
Longitude : 60100
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1824
Comment : Wrecked near Ardmore, Islay. Stromness-Newry
Cargo : HERRING
