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Short Sunderland Flying Boat: Gourock Bay, Upper Firth Of Clyde

Aircraft (20th Century)

Site Name Short Sunderland Flying Boat: Gourock Bay, Upper Firth Of Clyde

Classification Aircraft (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Ironotter Point; Inner Clyde Estuary; A/c Short

Canmore ID 112263

Site Number NS27NW 8044

NGR NS 247 777

NGR Description NS c. 247 777

Datum Datum not recorded

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  • Council Inverclyde
  • Parish Maritime - Inverclyde
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NS27NW 8044 c. 247 777

N55 57.6 W4 48.5

NLO: Gourock [name: NS 230 770]

Gourock Bay [name centred NS 247 777].

Formerly entered as NS27NW 9441 at cited location NS 2472 7795 (N55 57.75 W4 48.5).

Possibly on map sheet NS27NE.

[Short] Sunderland: this vessel foundered in Gourock Bay during World War II. [No identity, location or date of loss specified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 57.67 W4 48.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 2004.

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Loss (1939 - 1945)

[Short] Sunderland: this vessel foundered in Gourock Bay during World War II. [No identity, location or date of loss specified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 57.67 W4 48.50).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (6 December 2004)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 6 December 2004.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 7066

Name : A/C SHORT

Latitude : 555740

Longitude : 44830

Registration : BRITISH

Type : SUNDERLAND

Loss Day : 3

Loss Month : 12

Loss Year : 1944

Comment : Foundered in Gourock Bay during World War II. Dismantled and AG.

Cargo : DV978

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