Fox: Old Quay, Campbeltown Harbour, Kintyre, Firth Of Clyde
Smack (19th Century)
Site Name Fox: Old Quay, Campbeltown Harbour, Kintyre, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Smack (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Campbeltown Loch; Outer Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 267539
Site Number NR72SW 8030
NGR NR 722 204
NGR Description NR c. 722 204
Datum Datum not recorded
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Maritime - Argyll And Bute
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Maritime
- Former County Not Applicable
NR72SW 8030 c. 722 204
N55 25.5 W5 36
NLO: Campbeltown [name: NR 720 204]
Campbeltown Loch [name centred NR 745 205].
Campbeltown, Jan. 8, the FOX smack, at anchor off the Old Quay, was sunk at her moorings during a south-easterly gale yesterday: and another smack, belonging to a Gigha fisherman.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,189, London, Friday January 10 1879.
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 4799).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. The 1982 edition of the OS 1:10,000 map notes Old Quay [NAT] at NR 722 204. Campbeltown Harbour (NR72SW 43.00) is centred at NR 72215 20399.
The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 28 October 2004.