Maritime record MHG50347 - Eudora: Caol Mor, Inner Sound

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 57 32 (20m by 20m)
Map sheet NG53SE
Operational Area CAITHNESS SUTHERLAND AND EASTER ROSS

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NMRS Report: (19/02/2007 11:41:35)
NG53SE 8004 c. 58 33
N57 19 W6 1

NLO: Caol Mor [name centred: NG 580 335]
Inner Sound [name centred NG 64 40]
Isle of Raasay [name centred NG 56 41]
Sound of Raasay [name centred NG 55 55]
Kyleakin [name: NG 754 263]
Kyle Akin [name centred NG 758 268]
Scalpay [name NG 60 30].

Corry by Broadford (Skye), 28th June. The EUDORA (smack), of Jersey, from Runcorn to Stornoway, with salt, struck on a rock in the channel between the Islands of Scalpay and Raasay yesterday evening, and is likely to become a total wreck.
Source: LL, No. 15,050, London, Wednesday, July 2 1862.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10234).

(Classified as schooner, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as 27 June 1862). Eudora: this vessel was wrecked on a reef at Skerindrick, near Kyleakin or Raasay. Capt. Evenden.
Registration: Jersey. Built 1837. 45 tons register.
(Location of loss cited as N57 20.0 W6 6.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative; that of Skerindrick cannot be ascertained from the available map evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 February 2007.



Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Dataset: RCAHMS. 02/2008. Annual update from Canmore. Digital. 286493.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2009 3:19PM

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