Nations: Port Ellen, Islay, Atlantic
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Nations: Port Ellen, Islay, Atlantic
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'On A Tidal Rock Outside Of Port Ellen Harbour '; Loch Leodamais; Nations
Canmore ID 258948
Site Number NR34SE 8011
NGR NR 36 44
NGR Description NR c. 36 44
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NR34SE 8011 c. 36 44
N55 37 W6 12
NLO: Port Ellen [name: NR 365 453]
Loch Leodamais [name centred NR 364 450].
Possibly on map sheet NR34NE.
Not to be confused with NR34NW 8001 or NR36SW 8010.
25 February 1880, NATIONS, 26 yrs old, of Irvine, wooden schooner, 48 tons, 3 crew, Master M. Kennedy, Owner J. Kennedy, Bowmore, Islay, departed Bowmore, Islay, for Larne, carrying grain, wind WNW6, stranded, total loss, off Port Ellen, Islay.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
Bowmore, Feb. 25, NATIONS schooner, Kennedy, which sailed last night for Larne or Belfast (grain), is reported to have been found on a tidal rock outside of Port Ellen Harbour (south side of this island) with no one on board. The shore people went off to her, and, finding her floating off the rock, tried to take her to Ardbeg, but she sunk before they got there.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,543, London, Saturday February 28 [1880].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2995).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as 25 February 1880). Nations: this vessel stranded off Port Ellen. Capt. Kennedy. (?Foundered off Ardbeg November 1879).
Registration: irvine. Built 1851. 54grt. Length: 18m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 37.0 W6 12.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The tidal rock in question cannot be identified, but was probably one of those that form prominent projecting reefs to the S and SW of the harbour.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 May 2004.
Loss (25 February 1880)
25 February 1880, NATIONS, 26 yrs old, of Irvine, wooden schooner, 48 tons, 3 crew, Master M. Kennedy, Owner J. Kennedy, Bowmore, Islay, departed Bowmore, Islay, for Larne, carrying grain, wind WNW6, stranded, total loss, off Port Ellen, Islay.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).
Bowmore, Feb. 25, NATIONS schooner, Kennedy, which sailed last night for Larne or Belfast (grain), is reported to have been found on a tidal rock outside of Port Ellen Harbour (south side of this island) with no one on board. The shore people went off to her, and, finding her floating off the rock, tried to take her to Ardbeg, but she sunk before they got there.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,543, London, Saturday February 28 [1880].
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2995).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified but date of loss cited as 25 February 1880). Nations: this vessel stranded off Port Ellen. Capt. Kennedy. (?Foundered off Ardbeg November 1879).
Registration: Irvine. Built 1851. 54grt. Length: 18m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 37.0 W6 12.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (18 May 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The tidal rock in question cannot be identified, but was probably one of those that form prominent projecting reefs to the S and SW of the harbour.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 May 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5821
Name : NATIONS
Latitude : 553700
Longitude : 61200
Date Built : 1851
Registration : IRVINE
Type : SCHOONER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 54
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 18
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 25
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1880
Comment : Stranded off Port Ellen. Capt. Kennedy (Fnded off Ardbeg 11/1879?)
