Maritime record MHG50314 - Gazelle: Corran Ferry, Loch Linnhe

NMRS Report: (24/01/2007 16:46:50)
NN06SW 8014 c. 01 63
N56 43 W5 15

NLO: Corran Narrows [name: NN 017 632]
Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47]
Fort William [name: NN 105 740]
Oban [name: NM 862 303].

Oban, 25th Nov. The GAZELLE (schr.), of Dundee, McLoan, from Birkenhead to Tayport, with guano, is reported as having struck on a rock off South Corran.
Source, LL, No. 17,665, London, Tuesday, November 29 1870.

Glasgow, 26th Nov. The GAZELLE, McLean, from Birkenhead to Tayport, reported yesterday as having struck on a rock off South Corran, has parted amidships and become a total wreck.
Source, LL, No. 17,666, London, Wednesday, November 30 1870.

Dundee, 3rd Dec. The cargo of the GAZELLE, from Birkenhead to Tayport, reported, 25th Nov., as wrecked off South Corran, is being brought ashore.
Source, LL, No. 17,671, London, Tuesday, December 6 1870.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11878).

(No classification or cargo specified: date of loss cited as 25 November 1870). Gazelle: this vessel hit rocks at South Corran, and broke in two. Capt. McLean.
(Location of loss cited as N56 43.25 W5 14.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. South Corran is not noted as such on the 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 24 January 2007.