Maritime record MHG48467 - Huntcliffe: Loch Shiel, Sound Of Arisaig

NMRS Report: (20/05/2005)
NM67SE 8001 unlocated

Possibly on map sheets NM66NE, NM76NW, NM76NE, NM77SE, NM87NW, NM87NE, NM87SW, NM97NW or NM98SW.

Stornaway [Stornoway], 13th Oct. `The HUNTCLIFFE, Clark, from Hambro [Hamburg] to Liverpool, was stranded at Lochshell [Loch Shiel] 7th instant.¿
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6683, London, Friday October 21 1831.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 6802).

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary and the equation of Loch Shell with Loch Shiel is essentially tentative. The restricted access to the loch at Shiel Bridge [name: NM 667 689] strongly suggests that the vessel stranded within the adjacent area of open water (possibly around NM 65 72) rather than within the loch itself.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998), presumably suggesting her successful recovery.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 May 2005.