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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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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

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.

Activities

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

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