Islay: Port Ellen, Islay, Atlantic
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Islay: Port Ellen, Islay, Atlantic
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Leodamais
Canmore ID 284009
Site Number NR34SE 8022
NGR NR 36 44
NGR Description NR c. 36 44
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NR34SE 8022 c. 36 44
N55 37 W6 12
NLO: Port Ellen [name: NR 365 453]
Loch Leodamais [name centred NR 364 450].
Possibly on map sheet NR34NE.
Not to be confused with NR34NE 8018, NR34SE 8023 or NR36NW 8056.
Greenock, 21st Dec. The ISLAY (s), which should have arrived here, 19th Dec, from Islay, is reported on shore.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 13,643, London, Wednesday December 23 1857.
Greenock, 22nd Dec. The ISLAY (s), was at anchor off Port Ellen on the 18th Dec., when she was driven from her moorings by the heavy sea and went [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9441).
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 26 October 2006.
