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Elizabeth: Dunoon, Upper Firth Of Clyde

Smack (19th Century)

Site Name Elizabeth: Dunoon, Upper Firth Of Clyde

Classification Smack (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Inner Clyde Estuary; Elizabeth

Canmore ID 251907

Site Number NS17NE 8035

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 8035 c. 175 767

N55 56.9 W4 55.4

NLO: Dunoon [name: NS 175 767].

Formerly entered in error as NS28SW 8010 at cited location NS c. 22 82 [N55 59 W4 51], and also as NS17NE 8011 at cited location NS c. 175 767 [N55 56.9 W4 55.4].

13 October 1891. ELIZABETH. 24 years of Ardrossan. Wood smack. 16 ton. 2 men. Master J. Grieve. Owner G.B. Millar, Cove, Dunbartonshire. Greenock to Dunoon. Coal. Wind SE9. Dunoon.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1891-92 (1893-94 [C.7069] LXXX.711).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1362).

(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 13 October 1891). Elizabeth: this vessel stranded at Dunoon. Capt. Grieve.

Registration: Ardrossan. Built 1867. 16 grt. Length: 11m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 56.83 W4 55.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 November 2003.

Activities

Loss (13 October 1891)

13 October 1891. ELIZABETH. 24 years of Ardrossan. Wood smack. 16 ton. 2 men. Master J. Grieve. Owner G.B. Millar, Cove, Dunbartonshire. Greenock to Dunoon. Coal. Wind SE9. Dunoon.

Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1891-92 (1893-94 [C.7069] LXXX.711).

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1362).

(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 13 October 1891). Elizabeth: this vessel stranded at Dunoon. Capt. Grieve.

Registration: Ardrossan. Built 1867. 16 grt. Length: 11m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N55 56.83 W4 55.5).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (12 November 2003)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 November 2003.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 4224

Name : ELIZABETH

Latitude : 555650

Longitude : 45530

Date Built : 1867

Registration : ARDROSSAN

Type : SMACK (WOOD)

Tonnage : 16

Tonnage Code : G

Length : 11

Beam : 4

Loss Day : 13

Loss Month : 10

Loss Year : 1891

Comment : Stranded at Dunoon. Capt. Grieve

Cargo : COAL

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