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Ailsa: Scalpsie Bay, Bute, Firth Of Clyde

Yacht (20th Century)

Site Name Ailsa: Scalpsie Bay, Bute, Firth Of Clyde

Classification Yacht (20th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Sound Of Bute; Inner Clyde Estuary; Ailsa

Canmore ID 302541

Site Number NS05NE 8008

NGR NS 055 578

NGR Description NS c. 055 578

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

NS05NE 8008 c. 055 578

N55 46.5 W5 6.1

NLO: Scalpsie Bay [name: NS 055 578]

Sound of Bute [name centred NS 01 55].

Possibly on map sheet NS05NW.

(Classified as wooden yacht, in ballast: date of loss cited as 9 October 1910). Ailsa: this vessel [was] burnt in Scalpsie Bay [Bute].

Registration: Bute. 15 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 46.50 W5 6.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of map sheet NS05NW.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 February 2010.

Activities

Loss (9 October 1910)

(Classified as wooden yacht, in ballast: date of loss cited as 9 October 1910). Ailsa: this vessel [was] burnt in Scalpsie Bay [Bute].

Registration: Bute. 15 tons [unspecified].

(Location of loss cited as N55 46.50 W5 6.00).

I G Whittaker 1998.

Note (11 February 2010)

The location assigned to this record is essentially arbitrary. The loss of this vessel may have occurred within the area of map sheet NS05NW.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 11 February 2010.

Reference (2011)

Whittaker ID : 14514

Name : AILSA

Latitude : 554630

Longitude : 50600

Registration : ROTHESAY *

Type : YACHT (WOOD)

Tonnage : 15

Loss Day : 9

Loss Month : 10

Loss Year : 1910

Comment : Burnt in Scalpsie Bay.

Cargo : BALLAST

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