Ardenlea: Gare Loch, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Ardenlea: Gare Loch, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Gareloch; Inner Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 267689
Site Number NS28SE 8027
NGR NS
NGR Description Unlocated
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS28SE 8027 unlocated
NLO: Gare Loch [name centred NS 24 85].
See also NS28SE 8026.
Not to be confused with NS16NW 8007.
Possibly on map sheets NS28NW, NS28NE, or NS29SW.
Greenock, Dec. 29, 10.50 p.m., Captain of passenger steamer BALMORAL reports ships REMESIS and ARDENLEA drove from their anchorage in the Gareloch, and went ashore.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,491, London, Tuesday December 30 1879.
Greenock, Dec. 30, 3.35 p.m., NEMESIS is still ashore.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,492, London, Wednesday December 31 1879.
Greenock, Dec. 31, 10.43 a.m., NEMESIS (s), which was ashore in the Gareloch, was towed off last night and taken to her anchorage. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4901).
The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably on account of her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 November 2004.
