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Unknown: Bowling Harbour, River Clyde

Craft

Site Name Unknown: Bowling Harbour, River Clyde

Classification Craft

Alternative Name(s) Bowling Harbour Ship Graveyard

Canmore ID 102744

Site Number NS47SW 8001

NGR NS 4488 7392

Datum Datum not recorded

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  • Council West Dunbartonshire
  • Parish Maritime - West Dunbartonshire
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NS47SW 8001 4488 7392

N55 55.8 W4 29

NLO: Bowling [name: NS 445 737].

See also NS47SW 64.00 and NS47SW 8002.

Formerly entered as NS47SW 9378.

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Surveying Details

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6 January 1975. The wreck of a small coaster lies in Bowling Harbour, Dumbartonshire at approximately 55 55 48N, 004 29 00W. It has been there for a number of years.

Report taken from Sea Breezes magazine, December 1974, p.764.

28 August 1991. The wreck at NGR eastings 244940, northings 673560 (55 55 48.4N, 004 28 56.2W) has been lifted and removed. The wreck at NGR eastings 244600, northings 673640n (55 55 50.6N, 004 29 15.9) has also been removed.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

(Classified as coaster: no cargo or date of loss specified). Unknown. [No further information].

(Location cited as N55 55.80 W4 29.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The wrecks NS47SW 8001 and NS47SW 8002 are presumably two of the fourteen (ranging from fishing boats to leisure craft and Admiralty tenders) that are noted as comprising the ship graveyard within the basin at the entrance to Bowling Harbour. Ship breaking may have been carried out within the basin, and operations to reopen the Forth and Clyde Canal ('Millennium Link') pose the threat of clearance.

Vertical air photography: FCC 7343/45/564-5, flown 9 June 1975.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 December 2000.

NMRS, MS/829/21.

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Evidence Of Loss (1995)

Quality of fix = PA

Horizontal Datum = OGB

Surveying Details

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6 January 1975. The wreck of a small coaster lies in Bowling Harbour, Dumbartonshire at approximately 55 55 48N, 004 29 00W. It has been there for a number of years.

Report taken from Sea Breezes magazine, December 1974, p.764.

28 August 1991. The wreck at NGR eastings 244940, northings 673560 (55 55 48.4N, 004 28 56.2W) has been lifted and removed. The wreck at NGR eastings 244600, northings 673640n (55 55 50.6N, 004 29 15.9) has also been removed.

Hydrographic Office, 1995.

Evidence Of Loss (1998)

(Classified as coaster: no cargo or date of loss specified). Unknown. [No further information].

(Location cited as N55 55.80 W4 29.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (13 December 2000)

The wrecks NS47SW 8001 and 8002 are presumably two of the fourteen (ranging from fishing boats to leisure craft and Admiralty tenders) that are noted as comprising the ship graveyard within the basin at the entrance to Bowling Harbour. Ship breaking may have been carried out within the basin, and operations to reopen the Forth and Clyde Canal ('Millennium Link') pose the threat of clearance.

Vertical air photography: FCC 7343/45/564-5, flown 9 June 1975.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 13 December 2000.

NMRS, MS/829/21.

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