Maritime record MHG52262 - MOLLY: LOCH SUNART

NM76SE 8001 unlocated
NLO: Loch Sunart [name centred NM 75 60]
Strontian [name: NM 814 617].
Formerly entered in error as NM86SW 8001 (unlocated).
(Classified as [full-rigged] ship: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as July 1739). Molly: this vessel was lost in Loch Sunart. All gone to Strontian Harbour for sale, September 1740. Capt. Gray. Constructive total loss?
Registration: London. 140 tons burthern.
(Location of loss cited as N56 45.0 W5 32.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The map sheet assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains uncertain whether this vesel stranded or foundered; the former appears the more probable.
The unverified location of loss that is cited by Whittaker falls inland.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 2 April 2008. <1>