Maritime record MHG47027 - Agnes: Fort William, Loch Linnhe

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Location

Grid reference Centred NN 09 73 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NN07SE
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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Full Description

NMRS Report: (28/01/2005)
NN17SW 8006 c. 10 74
N56 49 W5 7

See also NN17SW 8003-5.

Possibly on map sheets NN07SE or NN17NW.

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

Glasgow, Nov. 23, according to advices from Fort William much damage was done there to shipping by the gale yesterday. A vessel with a cargo of coal sank opposite the gasworks. The DALVIE smack sank opposite the parade: the ALERT was driven ashore below the Alexandria Hotel: the AGNES, of Oban, was cast on the bank, and became a total wreck. There were no lives lost. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5270).

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



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 255291.

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  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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