Maritime record MHG47894 - Argyle: Cape Wrath, Atlantic

NMRS Report: (28/03/2007 10:41:53)
NC27NE 8017 unlocated

NLO: Cape Wrath [name: ND 256 750]
Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

See also HY20NE 8034.

Stromness, 2d Dec. `The LLOYD'S, Spence, from Fraserburg [Fraserburgh] to Ireland, was wrecked on Graemsay Island 28th ult. Crew and part of the materials. The ARGYLE, Sharp, from Shetland to Dublin, foundered off Cape Wrath 28th ult. Crew saved.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6697, London, Friday December 9 1831.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6819).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 28 November 1831). Argyle: this vessel foundered off Cape Wrath. Capt. Spence.
(Location of loss cited as N58 40 W5 0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary; the loss of this vessel may have taken place outwith Scottish waters
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 1 February 2005.