Choice: Clauchlands Point, Arran, Firth Of Clyde
Ketch (19th Century)
Site Name Choice: Clauchlands Point, Arran, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Ketch (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Clachog Point; Outer Clyde Estuary; Choice
Canmore ID 219831
Site Number NS03SE 8023
NGR NS 056 327
NGR Description NS c. 056 327
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish Maritime - North Ayrshire
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS03SE 8023 c. 056 327
N55 33 W5 4.9
NLO: Clauchlands Point [name: NS 056 327].
19 February 1889. CHOICE. Age unknown of Campbeltown. Wood ketch. 17 ton. 2 men. Master and owner R. McKay, Campbeltown. Ardrossan to Campbeltown. Coal. Wind NW5. Near Clachog Point, Arran.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1633).
(Classified as wooden ketch, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 19 February 1889). Choice: this vessel stranded near Clachog Point, Arran. Capt. McKay.
Registration: Campbeltown. 17 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 26.33 W5 15.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Clachog Point cannot be identified from the available map evidence, but is presumably to be equated with Clauchlands Point on the E coast of Arran to the N of the N entrance to Lamlash Bay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 August 2002.
NS 056 327 Site identified as part of a coastal zone assessment survey.
M Cressey and S Badger 2005.
Loss (19 February 1889)
19 February 1889. CHOICE. Age unknown of Campbeltown. Wood ketch. 17 ton. 2 men. Master and owner R. McKay, Campbeltown. Ardrossan to Campbeltown. Coal. Wind NW5. Near Clachog Point, Arran.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1888-89 (1890 [C.6115] LXVI.543).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1633).
(Classified as wooden ketch, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 19 February 1889). Choice: this vessel stranded near Clachog Point, Arran. Capt. McKay.
Registration: Campbeltown. 17 tons [unspecified].
(Location of loss cited as N55 26.33 W5 15.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (9 August 2002)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Clachog Point cannot be identified from the available map evidence, but is presumably to be equated with Clauchlands Point on the E coast of Arran to the N of the N entrance to Lamlash Bay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 August 2002.
External Reference (2005)
NS 056 327 Site identified as part of a coastal zone assessment survey.
M Cressey and S Badger 2005.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 4032
Name : CHOICE
Latitude : 552620
Longitude : 51500
Registration : CAMPBELTOWN
Type : KETCH (WOOD)
Tonnage : 17
Loss Day : 19
Loss Month : 2
Loss Year : 1889
Comment : Stranded near Clachog Pt, Arran. Capt. McKay
Cargo : COAL