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Unknown: Little Minch
Craft (18th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Little Minch
Classification Craft (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On Fladdy, Skye'; Eilean Flodigarry; Fladda-chuain; North Minch
Canmore ID 295317
Site Number NG47SE 8001
NGR NG
NGR Description Unlocated
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/295317
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NG47SE 8001 unlocated
NLO: Fladda-chuain [name: NG 361 815]
Eilean Flodigarry [name centred NG 480 718]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
Possibly on map sheets or NG47NE.
(No classification specified: cargo cited as timber, and date of loss as 20 November 1772). Unknown: a large vessel of approximately 400 tons was wrecked on Fladdy, Skye.
(Location of loss cited as N57 43.0 W6 15.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. Whittaker assumes the cited tonnage to refer to tons burthern.
The place-name 'Fladdy' may apply to either Fladda-chuain (about 6km NW of Rubha Hunish, the northernmost point of Skye) or to the Eilean Flodigarry (to the E of the Trotternish peninsula).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 July 2008.
Loss (20 November 1772)
(No classification specified: cargo cited as timber, and date of loss as 20 November 1772). Unknown: a large vessel of approximately 400 tons was wrecked on Fladdy, Skye.
(Location of loss cited as N57 43.0 W6 15.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (21 July 2008)
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. Whittaker assumes the cited tonnage to refer to tons burthern.
The place-name 'Fladdy' may apply to either Fladda-chuain (about 6km NW of Rubha Hunish, the northernmost point of Skye) or to the Eilean Flodigarry (to the E of the Trotternish peninsula).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 July 2008.
