Maritime record MHG50352 - Olive Branch: Skye, Little Minch

NMRS Report: (19/02/2007 13:40:15)
NG47NW 8006 unlocated

See also NS07SW 8007.

Greenock, 17th Mar. The OLIVE BRANCH, of Sunderland, Lumsden, from Liverpool to Newcastle, with salt, was driven on the rocks off the NE end of Skye 9th Mar., and sunk in half an hour: crew saved in their own boat, and arrived here. A large ship was seen on shore at Kintorley, Island of Bute, by the Liverpool steamer arrived here yesterday morning.
Source: LL, No. 15,581, London, Friday, March 18 1864.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10603).

(No classification specified: cargo cited as salt, and date of loss as 9 March 1864). Olive Branch: this vessel stranded on rocksd at the N end of Skye, slipped off and sank. Capt. Lumsden. Registration: Sunderland.
(Location of loss cited as N57 40.0 W6 15.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. Rubha Hunish, the most northerly point on Skye, is at NG 407 770.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 February 2007.