Maritime record MHG48452 - Nancy: Corran Ferry, Loch Linnhe

NMRS Report: (29/11/2006 15:07:06)
NN06SW 8010 unlocated

NLO: Corran Narrows [name: NN 017 632]
Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47]
Fort William [name: NN 105 740].

Stornaway [Stornoway], 28th Aug. `The NANCY, Logan, from Liverpool to Wick, was run on shore yesterday at the Birken Isles, being in a sinking state, having struck on a rock: the cargo washed out.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6461, London, Friday September 4 1829.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6660).

(Classified as sloop: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as September 1829). Nancy: this vessel was lost near Corran Ferry.
Registration: Iona. Built 1821. 17 tons burthern. Length: 9m. Beam: 4m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 43.0 W5 15.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet and quasi-administrative area assigned to this record are tentative. The Birken Isles are not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 May 2005.