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Unknown: Corran Ferry, Loch Linnhe
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Corran Ferry, Loch Linnhe
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'At The Corrans'; Oban; Corran Narrows; Loch Linnhe
Canmore ID 284895
Site Number NN06SW 8013
NGR NN 01 63
NGR Description NN c. 01 63
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NN06SW 8013 c. 01 63
N56 43 W5 15
NLO: Corran Narrows [name: NN 017 632]
Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47]
Oban [name: NM 862 303].
See also NN06SW 8016 and NN06SW 8017.
Greenock, 6th Oct. Two large schooners, have gone ashore at the Corrans, Oban, one of them with 100 tons of freestone.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,512, London, Monday October 8 1860.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9904).
(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 6 October 1860). Unknown: first of two schooners sranded at Corran.
(Location of loss cited as N56 43.0 W5 15.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 April 2008.
