Maritime record MHG47021 - Swift: Corpach, Loch Eil

Summary

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Location

Grid reference Centred NN 09 75 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NN07NE
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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Full Description

NMRS Report: (28/01/2005)
NN07NE 8003 c. 09 76
N56 50 W5 8

Possibly on map sheet NN17NW.

NLO: Loch Eil [name centred NN 02 77]
Corpach [name: NN 099 769]
Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47]
Fort William [name: NN 105 740].

SWIFT, of Arbroath, Corpach to Ardbeg, Islay, stranded, 8th Dec., one mile W of Fort William.
Source: Abstract of Board of Trade Casualty Returns, Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 19,547, London, Saturday December 16 1876.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4491).

The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998). The location suggested is essentially speculative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 March 2004.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 255282.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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