Trial Packet: Dunoon, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Sloop (19th Century)
Site Name Trial Packet: Dunoon, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Classification Sloop (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Inner Clyde Estuary; Trial Packet
Canmore ID 218659
Site Number NS17NE 8009
NGR NS 175 767
NGR Description NS c. 175 767
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
NS17NE 8009 c. 175 767
N55 56.9 W4 55.4
NLO: Dunoon [name: NS 175 767].
Greenock, 16th June. 'The TRIAL PACKET, Willis, of Irvine, laden with lime, took fire at Dunoon on Thursday, and was totally destroyed.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6752, London, Tuesday June 19 1832.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7012).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of lime: date of loss cited as 14 June 1832). Trial Packet: this vessel was destroyed by fire at Dunoon. Capt. Willis.
Registration: Irvine. Built 1800. 66 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 57.0 W4 55.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 June 2005.
Loss (14 June 1832)
Greenock, 16th June. 'The TRIAL PACKET, Willis, of Irvine, laden with lime, took fire at Dunoon on Thursday, and was totally destroyed.'
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 6752, London, Tuesday June 19 1832.
NMRS, MS/829/71 (no. 7012).
(Classified as sloop, with cargo of lime: date of loss cited as 14 June 1832). Trial Packet: this vessel was destroyed by fire at Dunoon. Capt. Willis.
Registration: Irvine. Built 1800. 66 tons burthern. Length: 16m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 57.0 W4 55.5).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (14 June 2005)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
The classification cited by Whittaker remains unverified, but is accepted.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 14 June 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 3857
Name : TRIAL PACKET
Latitude : 555700
Longitude : 45530
Date Built : 1800
Registration : IRVINE
Type : SLOOP
Tonnage : 66
Tonnage Code : B
Length : 16
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 14
Loss Month : 6
Loss Year : 1832
Comment : Destroyed by fire at Dunoon. Capt. Willis
Cargo : LIME