Maritime record MHG47030 - Banshee: Loch Linnhe

NMRS Report: (27/10/2006 16:09:09)
NN06NW 8002 unlocated

NLO: Corran Narrows [name: NN 017 632]
Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47]
Fort William [name: NN 105 740].

Fort William, Inverness, 19th Dec [1857]. The BANSHEE, of Glasgow, Gardner, from Inverness to Corran, in ballast, sank on the 13th Dec., about 4 miles South of this place, after being in contact with the JAMES, Findlay, from Cromarty to Liverpool, which received considerable damage: the crew of the BANSHEE were saved. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9444).

(No classification or cargo stated: date of loss cited as 13 December 1857). Banshee: this vessel was in collision and sank 4 miles south of Fort William (James). Capt. Gardner. Registration: Glasgow.
(Location of loss cited as N56 45.0 W5 15.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. The vessel was evidently lost between Fort William [name: NN 105 740].and the Corran Narrows [name: NN 017 632].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 October 2003.