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Thistle: Goat Island, Small Isles Bay, Jura, Atlantic

Sloop (19th Century)

Site Name Thistle: Goat Island, Small Isles Bay, Jura, Atlantic

Classification Sloop (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Small Isles Of Jura; Sound Of Jura; Thistle

Canmore ID 285377

Site Number NR56NW 8014

NGR NR 54 68

NGR Description NR c. 54 68

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NR56NW 8014 c. 54 68

N55 51 W5 56

NLO: Jura [name centred NR 54 82]

Sound of Jura [name centred NR 64 78]

Small Isles of Jura [name centred NR 546 679].

Glasgow, 4th Feb. The THISTLE (sloop), of Inverness, from Liverpool to Stirling, with salt, in working out of Small Isles Bay, 1st Feb., missed stays, and was totally wrecked on Goat Island: crew saved.

Source: LL, No. 15,545, London, Friday, February 5 1864,

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10551).

(Classified as wooden sloop, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 1 February 1864). Thistle: this vessel was wrecked on Goat Island, Small Isles Bay.

Registration: Inverness. Built 1827. 47grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 52.0 W5 55.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Goat Island is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 December 2006.

Activities

Loss (1 February 1864)

Glasgow, 4th Feb. The THISTLE (sloop), of Inverness, from Liverpool to Stirling, with salt, in working out of Small Isles Bay, 1st Feb., missed stays, and was totally wrecked on Goat Island: crew saved.

Source: LL, No. 15,545, London, Friday, February 5 1864,

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10551).

(Classified as wooden sloop, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 1 February 1864). Thistle: this vessel was wrecked on Goat Island, Small Isles Bay.

Registration: Inverness. Built 1827. 47grt. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 52.0 W5 55.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (21 December 2006)

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Goat Island is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 December 2006.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 11432

Name : THISTLE

Latitude : 555200

Longitude : 55500

Date Built : 1827

Registration : INVERNESS

Type : SLOOP (WOOD)

Tonnage : 47

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 16

Beam : 5

Loss Day : 1

Loss Month : 2

Loss Year : 1864

Comment : Wrecked on Goat Island, Small Isles Bay.

Cargo : SALT

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