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Waverley: Imachar Point, Arran, Kilbrannan Sound, Firth Of Clyde

Steamship (19th Century)

Site Name Waverley: Imachar Point, Arran, Kilbrannan Sound, Firth Of Clyde

Classification Steamship (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Imachur Point; 'on Imagher Point, West Arran'; Outer Clyde Estuary; Waverley

Canmore ID 218938

Site Number NR84SE 8001

NGR NR 862 406

NGR Description NR c. 862 406

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council North Ayrshire
  • Parish Maritime - North Ayrshire
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NR84SE 8001 c. 862 406

N55 36.7 W5 23.7

NLO: Imachar Point [name: NR 862 406]

Kilbrannan Sound [name centred NR 83 40]

Isle of Arran [name centred NR 95 35].

Formerly entered (in error and without location) as NS03SW 8038.

Not to be confused with NS04SW 8003.

11 December 1883, WAVERLEY, new, of Glasgow, Lloyd's 100 A.1., last survey 7.80, iron S.S., 79 tons, 10 crew, Master J. Brown, Owner McLachlan & Gallacher, Glasgow, departed Campbeltown for Glasgow, in ballast, 1 life lost, wind NW10, stranded, total loss, Arran Island, Buteshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).

WAVERLEY, Official No. 87,686, 80 net tons, built J. McArthur & Co., Paisley.

Table III: List of the 154 British Steamers totally lost.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).

WAVERLEY (s). Lamlash, Dec. 14, 4 35 p.m. Steamer WAVERLEY, of Glasgow, herring buyer, drove ashore on Imagher [Imachar] Point, West Arran: one man washed overboard and lost: she is holed and will probably become wreck.

Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,724, London, Saturday, December 15 1883.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3437).

(Classified as iron steamship, in ballast; date of loss cited as 11 December 1883). Waverley: this vessel stranded at Imachur [Imachar] Point, Arran. Capt. Brown.

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1883. 220grt. Length: 40m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 36.75 W5 25.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this recprd is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 July 2002.

Activities

Loss (11 December 1883)

11 December 1883, WAVERLEY, new, of Glasgow, Lloyd's 100 A.1., last survey 7.80, iron S.S., 79 tons, 10 crew, Master J. Brown, Owner McLachlan & Gallacher, Glasgow, departed Campbeltown for Glasgow, in ballast, 1 life lost, wind NW10, stranded, total loss, Arran Island, Buteshire.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).

WAVERLEY, Official No. 87,686, 80 net tons, built J. McArthur & Co., Paisley.

Table III: List of the 154 British Steamers totally lost.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1883-84 (1884-85 [C.4493] LXX.421).

WAVERLEY (s). Lamlash, Dec. 14, 4 35 p.m. Steamer WAVERLEY, of Glasgow, herring buyer, drove ashore on Imagher [Imachar] Point, West Arran: one man washed overboard and lost: she is holed and will probably become wreck.

Source: Casualties &c., LL, No. 21,724, London, Saturday, December 15 1883.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3437).

(Classified as iron steamship, in ballast; date of loss cited as 11 December 1883). Waverley: this vessel stranded at Imachur [Imachar] Point, Arran. Capt. Brown.

Registration: Glasgow. Built 1883. 220grt. Length: 40m. Beam: 6m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 36.75 W5 25.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (25 July 2002)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 July 2002.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 1125

Name : WAVERLEY

Latitude : 553645

Longitude : 52500

Date Built : 1883

Registration : GLASGOW

Type : SS (IRON)

Tonnage : 220

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 40

Beam : 6

Loss Day : 11

Loss Month : 12

Loss Year : 1883

Comment : Stranded at Imachur Point, Arran. Capt. Brown

Cargo : BALLAST

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