Rover: Garroch Head, Bute, Firth Of Clyde
Steam Tug (19th Century)
Site Name Rover: Garroch Head, Bute, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Steam Tug (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Dunagoil Bay, South Bute; Outer Clyde Estuary; Sound Of Bute; Rover
Canmore ID 264557
Site Number NS05SE 8008
NGR NS 098 517
NGR Description NS c. 098 517
Datum Datum not recorded
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/264557
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NS05SE 8008 c. 098 517
N55 43.3 W5 1.7
NLO: Garroch Head [name: NS 098 517]
Dunagoil Bay [name: NS 082 535]
Sound of Bute [name centred NS 01 55].
Possibly on map sheet NS15SW.
Glasgow, 19th Mar., the ROVER (tug) is reported ashore on Garroch head, and is likely to become a total wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,694, London, Saturday March 21 1874.
Glasgow, 20th Mar., the ROVER (tug), which was driven ashore at Dunagoil bay, South Bute, during the gale, has become a total wreck: crew saved. [Report received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4101).
(Classified as wooden paddle steamship: date of loss cited as 19 March 1874). Rover: this vessel was ashore on Garroch Head, Dunagoil Bay, and [was] expected [to become a] wreck.
Registration: Port Glasgow. Built 1861. 91grt. Length: 27m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 44.00 W5 3.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Garroch Head is the southernmost point of Bute.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 September 2004.
Loss (19 March 1874)
Glasgow, 19th Mar., the ROVER (tug) is reported ashore on Garroch head, and is likely to become a total wreck.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,694, London, Saturday March 21 1874.
Glasgow, 20th Mar., the ROVER (tug), which was driven ashore at Dunagoil bay, South Bute, during the gale, has become a total wreck: crew saved. [Report received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4101).
(Classified as wooden paddle steamship: date of loss cited as 19 March 1874). Rover: this vessel was ashore on Garroch Head, Dunagoil Bay, and [was] expected [to become a] wreck.
Registration: Port Glasgow. Built 1861. 91grt. Length: 27m. Beam: 5m.
(Location of loss cited as N55 44.00 W5 3.00).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Note (8 September 2004)
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Garroch Head is the southernmost point of Bute.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 8 September 2004.
Reference (2011)
Whittaker ID : 13404
Name : ROVER
Latitude : 554400
Longitude : 50300
Date Built : 1861
Registration : PORT GLASGOW
Type : SS (WOOD)(PADD)
Tonnage : 91
Tonnage Code : G
Length : 27
Beam : 5
Loss Day : 19
Loss Month : 3
Loss Year : 1874
Comment : Ashore on Garroch Head, Dunagoil Bay and expected wreck.