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Backwash: Loch Linnhe
Craft (20th Century)
Site Name Backwash: Loch Linnhe
Classification Craft (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Gy 1299; 'ardgour Slip'; Backwash (Gy 1299)
Canmore ID 293693
Site Number NN06NW 8004
NGR NN 024 672
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/293693
- Council Highland
- Parish Ardgour
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
NN07SE 8001 c. 075 723
N56 27 W5 26
(Classified as Fishing Vessel: registration number cited as GY 1299, and date of loss as 30 November 1921). Backwash: this vessel was wrecked on Ardgour Slip. (This Ardgour?).
Registration: Grimsby. Built 1917. 98grt. Length: 27m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 45.50 W5 14.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. The location of 'Ardgour Slip' is unclear, but the title may refer to the slipway (NN06SW 11) on the W side of the Corran Narrows (at NN 01666 63706).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 April 2008.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 1808
Name : BACKWASH (GY 1299)
Latitude : 564530
Longitude : 51400
Date Built : 1917
Registration : GRIMSBY
Type : FV (WOOD)
Tonnage : 98
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 27
Beam : 6
Draught : 3m
Loss Day : 30
Loss Month : 11
Loss Year : 1921
Comment : Wrecked on Ardgour Slip. (This Ardgour?)
