Mary: Loch Dunvegan, Skye, Little Minch
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Mary: Loch Dunvegan, Skye, Little Minch
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Duirinish; Sea Of The Hebrides
Canmore ID 284917
Site Number NG25SW 8007
NGR NG
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NG25SW 8007 unlocated
NLO: Loch Dunvegan [name centred NG 21 53]
Dunvegan Head [name centred NG 177 568]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
Possibly on map sheets NG15NW, or NG25NW.
See also NG29NW 8019 and NG81NW 8006.
Formerly also entered as NG25SW 8008.
Corry by Broadford, (Isle of Skye), 8th Oct [1860]. The gale of the 3rd Oct., occasioned much damage among the fishing craft on this coast. The following vessels are also reported on shore, and damaged: at Glenelg Bay, West coast of Invernesshire, the MEDORA (schr.), of and from Inverness, for Glasgow, with staves. At Loch Dunvegan, in this island, the MARY (sloop), of Kirkcudbright, bound to that Loch with salt from Liverpool: and at the Sound of Scalpay, in this island, the sloop GEORGE & JANE, of Dumfries, partly loaded with herrings. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9926).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 3 October 1860). Mary: this vessel stranded at Loch Dunvegan. (See Stornoway loss about this time).
Registration: Kirkcudbright.
(Location of loss cited as N57 30.0 W6 40.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Loch Dunvegan is an extensive loch set into the NW side of Skye, to the W of Waternish.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 November 2006.
Loss (3 October 1860)
Corry by Broadford, (Isle of Skye), 8th Oct [1860]. The gale of the 3rd Oct., occasioned much damage among the fishing craft on this coast. The following vessels are also reported on shore, and damaged: at Glenelg Bay, West coast of Invernesshire, the MEDORA (schr.), of and from Inverness, for Glasgow, with staves. At Loch Dunvegan, in this island, the MARY (sloop), of Kirkcudbright, bound to that Loch with salt from Liverpool: and at the Sound of Scalpay, in this island, the sloop GEORGE & JANE, of Dumfries, partly loaded with herrings. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9926).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 3 October 1860). Mary: this vessel stranded at Loch Dunvegan. (See Stornoway loss about this time).
Registration: Kirkcudbright.
(Location of loss cited as N57 30.0 W6 40.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (29 November 2006)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Loch Dunvegan is an extensive loch set into the NW side of Skye, to the W of Waternish.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 November 2006.
