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Rhoda: Rubh' An Iasgaich, Skye, Cuillin Sound, Sea Of The Hebrides
Motor Boat (20th Century)
Site Name Rhoda: Rubh' An Iasgaich, Skye, Cuillin Sound, Sea Of The Hebrides
Classification Motor Boat (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Rubh' An Isagaich; Point Of Sleat; Rhoda
Canmore ID 293095
Site Number NG50SE 8001
NGR NG 551 025
NGR Description NG c. 551 025
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NG50SE 8001 c. 551 025
N57 2.9 W6 2.3
NLO: Point of Sleat [name: NM 562 990]
Rubh' an Iasgaich [name: NG 551 025]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
(Classified as Motorboat [Motor Boat]: date of loss cited as 17 June 1925). Rhoda: this vessel was wrecked at Rubh' an Isagaich [Rubh' an Iasgaich], Point of Sleat. Registration: British.
(Location of loss cited as N57 3.0 W6 3.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The vessel presumably stranded.
The Cuillin Sound is not noted as such on the 1999 edition of the OS map, but the term is applied to the waters between Rum (to the SW) and the SE part of Skye (to the NE).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 March 2008.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 12927
Name : RHODA
Latitude : 570300
Longitude : 60300
Registration : BRITISH
Type : MOTORBOAT
Loss Day : 17
Loss Month : 6
Loss Year : 1925
Comment : Wrecked at Rubh' an Isagaich, Point of Sleat.
