Maritime record MHG50379 - Tantivy: Arisaig, Sound Of Arisaig

NMRS Report: (28/02/2007 11:11:54)
NM68NW 8010 unlocated

NLO: Arisaig [name centred NM 66 87]
Sound of Arisaig [name centred NM 65 80].

Glasgow, 14th Jan. The TANTIVY (schr.), from Newcastle to Dublin, went ashore at Arishaig [Arisaig] 11th Jan., and is likely to become a total wreck: two of the crew arrived here by the CLYDESDALE (s), the rest remained by the vessel.
Source: LL, No. 15,526, London, Thursday, January 14 1864.

Glasgow, 21st Jan. The TANTIVY, from Newcastle to Dublin, which went ashore at Arishaig [Arisaig], 11th Jan., has since broken up: part of her has come ashore at Arrindale.
Source: LL, No. 15,533, London, Friday, January 22 1864.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10536).

(Classified as wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 11 Janaury 1864). Tantivy: this vessel was wrecked at Arisaig.
Registration: Dundee. Built 1861. 98grt. Langth 24m. Beam 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N56 55.0 W5 55.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The location of Arrindale cannot be established from the available map evidence.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 February 2007.