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Cornish Trader: Caledonian Canal

Sloop (19th Century)

Site Name Cornish Trader: Caledonian Canal

Classification Sloop (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Cornish Trader

Canmore ID 292314

Site Number NH64NE 8023

NGR NH 65 45

Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Inverness And Bona
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Inverness
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NH64NE 8023 unlocated

(Classified as wooden sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 4 March 1892). Cornish Trader: this vessel [was] burnt in the Caledonian Canal.

Registration: Inverness. Built 1836. 29grt. Length: 13m. Beam: 5m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 29.0 W4 15.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location and map sheet assigned to this record are arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location that is cited by Whittaker.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 15 January 2008.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 15602

Name : CORNISH TRADER

Latitude : 572900

Longitude : 41500

Date Built : 1836

Registration : INVERNESS

Type : SLOOP (WOOD)

Tonnage : 29

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 13

Beam : 5

Loss Day : 4

Loss Month : 3

Loss Year : 1892

Comment : Burnt in the Caledonian Canal.

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