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Grace Carry: Cloch Point, Upper Firth Of Clyde

Smack (19th Century)

Site Name Grace Carry: Cloch Point, Upper Firth Of Clyde

Classification Smack (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Inner Clyde Estuary; Cloch Lighthouse; Grace Carry

Canmore ID 265443

Site Number NS27NW 8109

NGR NS 202 758

NGR Description NS c. 202 758

Datum Datum not recorded

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Inverclyde
  • Parish Maritime - Inverclyde
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Maritime
  • Former County Not Applicable

Archaeology Notes

NS27NW 8109 c. 202 758

N55 56.5 W4 52.8

NLO: Cloch Point [name: NS 202 758].

Location formerly entered as NS c. 20 76 [N55 57 W4 53].

Gourock, 9th Mar., 1.15 p.m., the fishing smack GRACE CARRY, 8 tons, from Tignabruaich to Glasgow, is ashore at Cloch [Point] light, and will become a total wreck.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,995, London, Wednesday March 10 [1875].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4210).

(Classified as fishing smack: date of loss cited as 9 March 1875). Grace Carry: this vessel was wrecked at Cloch Point.

8nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N55 57.00 W4 54.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Cloch [Point] Lighthouse (NS27NW 16) is at NS 20319 75877.

This vessel evidently stranded.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 September 2004.

Activities

Loss (9 March 1875)

Gourock, 9th Mar., 1.15 p.m., the fishing smack GRACE CARRY, 8 tons, from Tignabruaich to Glasgow, is ashore at Cloch [Point] light, and will become a total wreck.

Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,995, London, Wednesday March 10 [1875].

NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4210).

(Classified as fishing smack: date of loss cited as 9 March 1875). Grace Carry: this vessel was wrecked at Cloch Point.

8nrt.

(Location of loss cited as N55 57.00 W4 54.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (22 September 2004)

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Cloch [Point] Lighthouse (NS27NW 16) is at NS 20319 75877.

This vessel evidently stranded.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 September 2004.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 13278

Name : GRACE CARRY

Latitude : 555700

Longitude : 45400

Type : FISHING SMACK

Tonnage : 8

Tonnage Code : N

Loss Day : 9

Loss Month : 3

Loss Year : 1875

Comment : Wrecked at Cloch Point.

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