Agness: Upper Firth Of Clyde
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Agness: Upper Firth Of Clyde
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Off Gourock'; Inner Clyde Estuary; Agness
Canmore ID 301415
Site Number NS27NW 8140
NGR NS 24 78
Datum WGS84 - Lat/Long
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/301415
- Council Inverclyde
- Parish Maritime - Inverclyde
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS27NW 8140 unlocated
NLO: Gourock [name: NS 230 770].
Possibly within the Maritime - Argyll and Bute.
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 8 August 1823). Agness: this vessel was lost off Gourock.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1815. 51 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 58.00 W4 49.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area that is designated as Maritime - Argyll and Bute.
The vessel presumably foundered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 December 2009.
Loss (8 August 1823)
(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 8 August 1823). Agness: this vessel was lost off Gourock.
Registration: Glasgow. Built 1815. 51 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 58.00 W4 49.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (4 December 2009)
The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are essentially arbitrary, being derived from the unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the quasi-administrative area that is designated as Maritime - Argyll and Bute.
The vessel presumably foundered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 4 December 2009.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 15667
Name : AGNESS
Latitude : 555800
Longitude : 44900
Date Built : 1815
Registration : GLASGOW
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 51
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 16
Beam : 4
Loss Day : 8
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1823
Comment : Lost off Gourock.
