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Reaper: Toward Point, Upper Firth Of Clyde

Schooner (20th Century)

Site Name Reaper: Toward Point, Upper Firth Of Clyde

Classification Schooner (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) 'On The Rothesay Facing Side'; Inner Clyde Estuary; Reaper

Canmore ID 112383

Site Number NS16NW 8008

NGR NS 135 670

NGR Description NS c. 135 670

Datum Datum not recorded

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  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NS16NW 8008 c. 135 670

N55 51.6 W4 58.8

NLO: Toward Point [name: NS 135 670].

Formerly entered as NS16NW 9396 at cited location NS 1416 6612 [N55 51.15 W4 58.15].

(Classified as three-masted wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 12 March 1923). Reaper: this vessel stranded at Toward Point on the Rothesay facing side.

Registration: Truro. Built 1875: rebuilt 1907. 131grt. Length: 29m. Bream: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 52.0 W4 59.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Toward Point Lighthouse (NS16NW 12.00) is at NS 13623 67226.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 February 2007.

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Loss (12 March 1923)

(Classified as three-masted wooden schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 12 March 1923). Reaper: this vessel stranded at Toward Point on the Rothesay facing side.

Registration: Truro. Built 1875: rebuilt 1907. 131grt. Length: 29m. Bream: 7m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 52.0 W4 59.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (20 February 2007)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Toward Point Lighthouse (NS16NW 12.00) is at NS 13623 67226.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 20 February 2007.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 7099

Name : REAPER

Latitude : 555200

Longitude : 45930

Date Built : 1875

Registration : TRURO

Type : SCHOONER(3-MST)(W)

Tonnage : 131

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 29

Beam : 7

Draught : 3m

Loss Day : 12

Loss Month : 3

Loss Year : 1923

Comment : Stranded at Toward Pt on the Rothesay facing side. Rebuilt 1907

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