Maritime record MHG47039 - Edgar: Canna, Sea Of The Hebrides
Summary
No summary available.
Location
| Grid reference | Not recorded |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | Not recorded |
| Operational Area | CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS |
Map
No mapped location recorded.
Type and Period (1)
Full Description
NMRS Report: (12/10/2005)
NG20NE 8017 unlocated
NLO: Canna [name centred NG 25 05].
Possibly on map sheets NG20NW, NG20SW or NG20SE.
Formerly also entered as NG20NE 8014.
20 January 1884, EDGAR, 12 yrs old, of Yarmouth, N.S., wooden ship, 1.090 tons, 17 crew, Master S. N. Durkee, Owner H. H. Crosby and Co., Yarmouth, N.S., departed Liverpool for Philadelphia, in ballast, wind WNW9, stranded, total loss, Island of Canna, Little Minch, Western Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).
NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3455).
(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 20 January 1884). Edgar: this vessel stranded near Canna. 1090 nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N57 3.0 W6 32.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 March 2004.
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SHG24123 Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 255332.
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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2009 3:19PM
