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Cathie: Ornsay, Sound Of Sleat

Smack (20th Century)

Site Name Cathie: Ornsay, Sound Of Sleat

Classification Smack (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) '100 Yards North Of Oronsay Lighthouse, Sound Of Skye; Ornsay Lighthouse'; Eilean An Eoin; Skye; Lochalsh; Atlantic; Sea Of The Hebrides; Cathie

Canmore ID 292959

Site Number NG71SW 8017

NGR NG 713 122

NGR Description NG c. 713 122

Datum Datum not recorded

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Maritime - Highland
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NG71SW 8012 c. 713 121

N57 8.6 W5 46.8

NLO: Ornsay [name centred NG 710 127]

Loch Alsh [name centred NG 80 25]

Sound of Sleat [name centred NG 72 09]

Skye [name centred NG 45 35].

(Classified as smack, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 30 July 1919). Cathie: this vessel stranded 100 yards North of Oronsay [Ornsay] Lighthouse, Sound of Skye. Capt. MacFadyen.

Registration: Greenock. Built 1893. 34nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N57 9.0 W5 47.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Isle Ornsay lighthouse (NG71SW 8.00) is at NG 71350 12183, on Eilean an Eoin, off the SE corner of Ornsay.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 February 2008.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 13004

Name : CATHIE

Latitude : 570900

Longitude : 54700

Date Built : 1893

Registration : GREENOCK

Type : SMACK

Tonnage : 34

Tonnage Code : N

Loss Day : 30

Loss Month : 7

Loss Year : 1919

Comment : Stranded 100 yards north of Oronsay Lighthouse, Sound of Skye. Capt. MacFadyen

Cargo : COAL

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