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Marion: Skye
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Marion: Skye
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sea Of The Hebrides; The Little Minch; Inner Sound; Sound Of Sleat; Marion
Canmore ID 295931
Site Number NG21NE 8013
NGR NG 28 17
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/295931
- Council Highland
- Parish Maritime - Highland
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NG21NE 8013 unlocated
NLO: Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as December 1860). Marion: this vessel was wrecked on Skye.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1848. 18 tons burthern. Length: 12m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 10.0 W6 30.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unclear on which side of this extensive island the vessel stranded.
The location cited by Whittaker is presumably arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 August 2008.
Loss (December 1860)
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as December 1860). Marion: this vessel was wrecked on Skye.
Registration: Inverness. Built 1848. 18 tons burthern. Length: 12m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 10.0 W6 30.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (20 August 2008)
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unclear on which side of this extensive island the vessel stranded.
The location cited by Whittaker is presumably arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 August 2008.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 15622
Name : MARION
Latitude : 571000
Longitude : 63000
Date Built : 1848
Registration : INVERNESS
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 18
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 12
Beam : 4
Loss Month : 12
Loss Year : 1860
Comment : Wrecked on Skye.
