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Christina Baillie: Sound Of Sleat
Lugger (20th Century)
Site Name Christina Baillie: Sound Of Sleat
Classification Lugger (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bck 170; 'near Mallaig'; Sea Of The Hebrides; Christina Baillie (Bck 170)
Canmore ID 293428
Site Number NM69NE 8015
NGR NM 67 96
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/293428
- Council Highland
- Parish Glenelg (Lochaber)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM69NE 8015 unlocated
NLO: Mallaig [name: NM 675 970]
Sound of Sleat [name centred NG 72 09].
(Classified as motor lugsail [lugger]; registration cited as BCK 170, and date of loss as 22 April 1929). Christina Baillie: this vessel was burnt to the waterline near Mallaig (Dunvegan?). Capt. Lees.
Registration: Buckie. Built: 1910. 10grt. Length: 10m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 0.0 W5 50.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 March 2008.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 12903
Name : CHRISTINA BAILLIE (BCK 170)
Latitude : 570000
Longitude : 55000
Date Built : 1910
Registration : BUCKIE
Type : MOTOR LUGSAIL
Tonnage : 10
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 10
Beam : 4
Loss Day : 22
Loss Month : 4
Loss Year : 1929
Comment : Burnt to the waterline near Mallaig (Dunvegan ?). Capt. Lees
