Tyree Packet: Glenmore, Loch Sunart
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Tyree Packet: Glenmore, Loch Sunart
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Tiree Packet; Lochsunart; Sound Of Mull
Canmore ID 284909
Site Number NM56SE 8003
NGR NM 58 61
NGR Description NM c. 58 61
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NM56SE 8003 c. 58 61
N56 41 W5 57
NLO: Glenmore [name: NM 586 623]
Glenmore Bay [name centred NM 590 616]
Loch Sunart [name centred NM 75 60]
Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46]
Tiree [name centred NM 00 45].
Tobermory, 4th Oct. The TYREE PACKET put back from the Island of Coll to Lochsunart [Loch Sunart] and drove ashore at Glenmore: one of the crew and a female drowned.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,513, London, Tuesday October 9 1860.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9915).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), possibly suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 November 2006.
