Jessies: Ornsay, Sound Of Sleat
Lugger (20th Century)
Site Name Jessies: Ornsay, Sound Of Sleat
Classification Lugger (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Isleornsay, Skye'; Atlantic; Sea Of The Hebrides; Colonsay; Oronsay; Jessies
Canmore ID 292960
Site Number NG71SW 8018
NGR NG 710 127
NGR Description NG c. 710 127
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NG71SW 8018 c. 710 127
N57 8.9 W5 47.2
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].
Formerly also entered as NR38NE 8005, within quasi-administrative area designated as Maritime - Argyll and Bute.
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 23 November 1908). Jessies: this vessel stranded [on] Isleornsay [Isle Ornsay], Skye.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1888. 13 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N57 9.0 W5 47.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Larn and Larn locate this loss on Oronsay (Colonsay, Argyll). A location on Ornsay (Skye) is preferred.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 February 2008.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 6131
Name : JESSIES
Latitude : 570900
Longitude : 54700
Date Built : 1888
Registration : INVERNESS *
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 13
Loss Day : 23
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1908
Comment : Stranded Isleornsay, Skye
Cargo : BALLAST
