Thistle: Dunoon, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Lugger (19th Century)
Site Name Thistle: Dunoon, Upper Firth Of Clyde
Classification Lugger (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Inner Clyde Estuary; Thistle
Canmore ID 220117
Site Number NS17NE 8019
NGR NS 175 767
NGR Description NS c. 175 767
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/220117
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS17NE 8019 c. 175 767
N55 56.9 W4 55.4
NLO: Dunoon [name: NS 175 767].
See also NS17NE 8020-3.
Not to be confused with NS17NE 8020.
21 August 1893, THISTLE, 2 years, not reg. wood pleasure boat (lug sail). 2 ton. None on board. Master and owner D. Sinclair, Dunoon. Lying at Dunoon. Ballast. Wind SW8. Dunoon.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1151).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 21 August 1893). Thistle: this vessel was stranded and wrecked while lying at Dunoon.
Not registered. Built 1891. 2 tons (unspecified).
(Location of loss cited as N55 56.25 W4 55.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 August 2002.
Loss (21 August 1893)
21 August 1893, THISTLE, 2 years, not reg. wood pleasure boat (lug sail). 2 ton. None on board. Master and owner D. Sinclair, Dunoon. Lying at Dunoon. Ballast. Wind SW8. Dunoon.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1151).
(Classified as wooden lugger, in ballast: date of loss cited as 21 August 1893). Thistle: this vessel was stranded and wrecked while lying at Dunoon.
Not registered. Built 1891. 2 tons (unspecified).
(Location of loss cited as N55 56.25 W4 55.50).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (19 August 2002)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 19 August 2002.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 5916
Name : THISTLE
Latitude : 555615
Longitude : 45530
Date Built : 1891
Registration : Not Registered
Type : LUGGER (WOOD)
Tonnage : 2
Loss Day : 21
Loss Month : 8
Loss Year : 1893
Comment : Stranded and wrecked whilst lying at Dunoon.
Cargo : BALLAST