Maritime record MHG47062 - Marchioness Of Bute: Point Of Ardnamurchan, Sea Of The Hebrides

NMRS Report: (17/11/2006 15:04:10)
NM46NW 8006 unlocated

NLO: Point of Ardnamurchan [name: NM 415 675]
Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46]
Tobermory [name: NM 505 555]
Muck [name centred NM 40 79].

Tobermory, 29th Nov. The MARCHIONESS OF BUTE (smack), Black, from Lohnevis, with herrings, foundered off the Point of Ardnamurchan 25th Nov.: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 14,248, London, Saturday December 3 1859.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 9765).

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 25 November 1859). Marchioness of Bute: this vessel foundered off Ardnamurchan Point, or was wrecked on Muck.
Registration: Rothesay. Built 1805. 29 tons burthern. Length: 12m. Beam: 3m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 44.0 W6 15.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. The vessel may have been lost within the quasi-administrative area defined as Maritime - Argyll and Bute.
The alternative location of loss cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 10 March 2004.