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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

Archaeology Notes

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.

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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

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