Maritime record MHG46435 - Arvon: Applecross, Inner Sound

NMRS Report: (19/02/2007 11:47:08)
NG74SW 8004 unlocated

Formerly entered as NG76SW 8004 (unlocated).

NLO: Applecross [name: NG 711 445]
Loch Torridon [name centred NG 76 59]
Inner Sound [name centred NG 64 40].

2 November 1853, ARVON, of Caernarvon, Newcastle to Galway, foundered, North coast of Applecross, Rosshire, after striking a sunken rock. Crew saved. Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.
Source: PP Admiralty Register of Wrecks and other Casualties on Shores of UK 1853 (1854 (337) XLII.647).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 467).

(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo cited but date of loss cited as 2 November 1853). This vessel 'foundered' [sic.] on the N coast of Applecross, Ross-shire.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 August 2003.