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Molly: Loch Sunart
Ship (18th Century)
Site Name Molly: Loch Sunart
Classification Ship (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Strontian; Atlantic; Molly
Canmore ID 293716
Site Number NM86NW 8002
NGR NM 84 67
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/293716
- Council Highland
- Parish Ardnamurchan
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
NM86NW 8002 unlocated
NLO: Loch Sunart [name centred NM 75 60]
Strontian [name: NM 814 617].
Formerly entered in error as NM86SW 8001 (unlocated).
(Classified as [full-rigged] ship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as July 1739). Molly: this vessel was lost in Loch Sunart. All gone to Strontian Harbour for sale, September 1740. Capt. Gray. Constructive total loss?
Registration: London. 140 tons burthern.
(Location of loss cited as N56 45.0 W5 32.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains uncertain whether this vesel stranded or foundered; the former appears the more probable.
The unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker falls inland.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 April 2008.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 17301
Name : MOLLY
Latitude : 564500
Longitude : 53200
Registration : LONDON
Type : SHIP
Tonnage : 140
Tonnage Code : B
Loss Month : 7
Loss Year : 1739
Comment : Lost in Loch Sunart, AG to Strontien Harbour for sale 9/1740. Capt. Gray CTL?
Reference (2011)
NM 7433 6124 The Molly left Strontian in December 1739 with 115 tons of lead bars, each bar weighing 8 stones Amsterdam (or 9 stones Avoirdupois). It ran into a skerry to the SSW of Rubha an Daimh in Loch Sunart and sank. No further details are known but the cargo was later salvaged by Jacob Rowe at a cost of £200. The skerry has since been known as Sgeir Mhali, the Molly’s Skerry.
Funder: Garbh Chriochan a’ Deas Lost Place Names Survey
Jim Kirby, 2011
