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
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.
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