Maritime record MHG47913 - James: Glenelg Bay, Sound Of Sleat

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 802 198 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NG81NW
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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Full Description

NMRS Report: (09/02/2005)
NG81NW 8001 c. 803 198
N57 13 W5 38.3

NLO: Glenelg Bay [name: NG 803 198].

Possibly on map sheet NG82SW.

The ship JAMES, of Baltimore, of about 300 tons burthen, Wells, Master, supposed to be from Holland, went on shore on the 20th Sept. last, in the Bay of Glenelg [Glenelg Bay], on the West Coast of Scotland, and was sold.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 4503, London, Tuesday November 6 1804.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5532).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 20 September 1804). James: this vessel went ashore in the Bay of Glenelg [Glenelg Bay] West coast of Scotland, and was sold. (check 1803?)
Registration: American. 300 [tons register].
(Location of loss cited as N57 13 W5 37).
I G Whittaker 1998.

No classification can be assigned to this vessel; it is unlikely that she was a full-rigged ship.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 February 2005.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 270432.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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