Maritime record MHG47057 - John: Salen Bay, Loch Sunart

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Location

Grid reference Centred NM 690 638 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NM66SE
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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Full Description

NMRS Report: (28/01/2005)
NM66SE 8003 c. 690 639
N56 42.6 W5 46.5

NLO: Salen Bay [name: NM 690 639]
Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46]
Loch Sunart [name centred NM 75 60].

Tobermory, 10th Sept. The JOHN (smack) of Rush, port of Dublin, Herbert, from Orkney to Dublin, with herrings, got ashore in Salem Bay, Mull, on the night of 6th Sept.: cargo discharging.
Source: LL, No. 14,802, London, Friday, September 13 1861.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10121).

(Classified as smack, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 6 September 1861). This vessel stranded in Salem Bay, Sound of Mull.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Salem Bay, Sound of Mull cannot be identified from the available map evidence. The location of this loss may be tentatively identified as Salen Bay, Loch Sunart.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 March 2004.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 255389.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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