Maritime record MHG48517 - Isabella: Morvern, Sound Of Mull

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Location

Grid reference Centred NM 53 55 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NM55NW
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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Full Description

NMRS Report: (03/06/2005)
NM55NW 8033 c. 54 55
N56 37 W6 1

Possibly on map sheet NM55SW.

NLO: Tobermory [name: NM 505 555]
Sound of Mull [name centred NM 58 46].

Tobermory, 4th Oct. The ISABELLA, (smack), Love, of and from Belfast, for Wick, ran on shore opposite this place last night, and is expected to become a total wreck: crew saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 11,715, London, Thursday October 9 1851.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8699).

(Classified as smack: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 3 October 1851). Isabella: this vessel stranded opposite Tobermory, and was expected to become a wreck. Registration: Belfast.
(Location of loss cited as N56 37.0 W6 0.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this loss is essentially tentative. The vessel was presumably not recovered.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 3 June 2005.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 272699.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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