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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

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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 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.

Activities

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

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