Maritime record MHG46485 - Saxon: Loch Slapin, Skye, Sea Of The Hebrides

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 57 16 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NG51NE
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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NMRS Report: (23/10/2003)
NG51NE 8005 c. 57 17
N57 11 W6 1

NLO: Loch Slapin [name centred NG 57 17].

Possibly on map sheet NG52SE.

17 November 1893, SAXON, 36 years, of Dublin. Wood smack. 37 ton. 3 men. Master and owner W. McInnes, Ardoch, Broadford, Skye. Stationed for herring curing in Loch Slapin. Herrings in casks. Wind NNE11. Loch Slapin, Skye.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1181).

(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 17 November 1893). This vessel was stranded in Loch Slapin.
I G Whittaker 1998.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 251584.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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