Maritime record MHG46452 - Hope: Port Driseach, Loch Linnhe

NMRS Report: (27/01/2005)
NN06NW 8001 unlocated

NLO: Doire Driseach [name: NN 007 698]
Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47].

8 October 1896 HOPE, 32 years, not reg., wood jigger, 14 ton, 2 men, Master R. Wilson, owner J. McKerdy, Stroed, St. Ninians, Bute. Moored at Port Driseach, Argyllshire. Coal. Wind E8. Port Driseach.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1896-97 (1898 [C.8917] LXXXVIII.401).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 897).

(Classified as wooden jigger, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 8 October 1896). This vessel was driven from moorings and stranded at Port Driseach, Argyll.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. Port Driseach is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. Doire Driseach lies inland, and an equation of Port Driseach with the prominent Inverscaddle Bay [name centred NN 027 684] may be suggested.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 October 2003.