Maritime record MHG47023 - Katinka: Callert, Ballachulish, Loch Leven

NMRS Report: (12/04/2007 09:15:14)
NN06SE 8002 c. 09 60
N56 42 W5 7

NLO: Loch Leven [name centred NN 09 59]
North Ballachulish [name centred NN 055 605]
South Ballachulish [name centred NN 051 950]
Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47].

Possibly on map sheet NN05NE, NN15NW or NN16SW.

Fort William, 16th Sept., 12.20 p.m., the KATINKA (screw schooner-yacht, late CHETAH), parted from her moorings and dragged anchor ashore 9.50 last night: hole in her amidships: lying bad place. Still blowing hard.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,091, London, Tuesday September 17 1878.

Oban, 18th Sept., 8.40 p.m, deputy went this day, by request, to Callart by Ballachulish to inspect KATINKA (s): found two plates under bilge stove in and torn, cabin fittings totally smashed, vessel in a precarious position and would require engineers at once to repair temporarily, in order to have her taken to where repair could be effected. Tide flows in and out. Wire instructions. [Report received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4758).

The location assigned to this record is inferred: Callert or Callart House (NNO6SE 1) is at NN 0924 6038. The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), and she may have been returned satisfactorily to service.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 5 March 2004.