Unknown: Campbeltown Harbour, Kintyre, Firth Of Clyde
Craft (19th Century)
Site Name Unknown: Campbeltown Harbour, Kintyre, Firth Of Clyde
Classification Craft (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Campbeltown Loch; Campbeltown Quay; Mussel Embankment; Outer Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 269612
Site Number NR72SW 8039
NGR NR 722 203
NGR Description NR c. 722 203
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 8039 c. 722 203
N55 25.4 W5 36
NLO: Campbeltown [name: NR 720 204]
Campbeltown Loch [name centred NR 745 205].
Glasgow, March 4, a telegram from Campbeltown states that a most violent SE gale raged yesterday. Several small fishing vessels were driven form their moorings and sunk, some of them being dashed against the mussel embankment, over which the waves were making clean breaches all day. Some of the vessels moored at the quay were more or less damaged by contact with the quay. Snow and sleet fell heavily. [Record received incomplete].
NMRS, MS/829/70 (no. 5100).
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Campbeltown Harbour (NR72SW 43.00) is centred at NR 72215 20399.
The loss of these vessels is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 23 December 2004.