Unknown: Rosneath, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Schooner (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Rosneath, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Classification Schooner (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 'Opposite Green Island, Roseneath'; Gare Loch; Rosneath Point; Inner Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 267692
Site Number NS28SE 8028
NGR NS 27 80
NGR Description NS c. 27 80
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
NS28SE 8028 c. 27 80
N55 59 W4 46
NLO: Rosneath Point [name: NS 275 806]
Rosneath [village] (name: NS 255 834]
Gare Loch [name centred NS 24 85].
See also NR97SE 8005, NS07NW 8004-6, NS15SE 8015 and NS28SW 8015.
Possibly on map sheet NS27NE.
Greenock, Dec. 30 [1879], 11.26 a.m., the following results of the gale are reported: a schooner sunk opposite Green Island, Roseneath [Rosneath], and both of her masts are visible above water. Gabbart EVA also sunk between Clynder and Roseneath [Rosneath]. Captain Campbell, of river steamer CHEVALIER, towed off twice the CERES smack, ashore in Kyles of Bute, and two other smacks are said to be wrecked near the same place. The smack ELIZABETH drove ashore at Millport on Sunday night, and has since become a total wreck. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4903).
The location of this loss is uncertain. Green Island is neither noted as such nor apparent on the 1995 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 November 2004.
