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Glenelg: Eigg, Sea Of The Hebrides

Steam Yacht (19th Century)

Site Name Glenelg: Eigg, Sea Of The Hebrides

Classification Steam Yacht (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Eigg Island; Glenelg

Canmore ID 213224

Site Number NM48NE 8007

NGR NM 47 87

NGR Description NM c. 47 87

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Maritime - Highland
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NM48NE 8007 c. 47 87

N56 54 W6 9

NLO: Eigg [name centred NM 47 87].

Possibly on map sheet NM48NW, NM48SW, or NM49SE.

7 August 1894, GLENELG, 22 years, of Glasgow, composite steam yacht. 8 ton, 3 men. Master J. Erskine. Owner W. Blackwood, Port Glasgow. Cruising amongst Western Islands of Scotland. Ballast + 6 passengers. Wind SSWT. Eig [Eigg] Island, Inverness-shire.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1894-95 (1896 [C.8247] LXXV.489).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1043).

(Classified as composite steam yacht, in ballast: date of loss cited as 7 August 1894). Glenelg: this vessel stranded on Eigg. Capt. Erskine.

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1872. 8 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N56 55.0 W6 10.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. It remains unclear whereabouts the vessel stranded on this extensive island.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 March 2008.

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Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 2990

Name : GLENELG

Latitude : 565500

Longitude : 61000

Date Built : 1872

Registration : GLASGOW

Type : STEAM YACHT (COMP)

Tonnage : 8

Loss Day : 7

Loss Month : 8

Loss Year : 1894

Comment : Stranded on Eigg. Capt. Erskine

Cargo : BALLAST

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