MHG46445 - Union: Loch Bay, Skye, Little Minch

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Type and Period (2)

  • WRECK (Undated)
  • SCHOONER (Unknown date)

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NMRS Report: (16/09/2003)
NG25NE 8001 c. 26 55
N57 30 W6 34

NLO: Loch Bay [name centred NG 260 555].

Possibly on map sheet NG25SE.

22 December 1898 UNION, 54 years, of Belfast. Wood schooner, 50 ton, 3 men, master T. Mulligan. Owner T. Mulligan & A. McLellan, Mallaig. Moored in Loch Bay, Isle of Skye. Ballast. Wind S10. Loch Bay, Island of Skye. Casualties involving total loss of vessel during year end 30 June 1899.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours, of UK July 1898-99 (1900 [Cd. 318] LXXVII.531).
NMRS, MS/829/67 (no. 738).

(Classified as wooden schooner, in ballast: date of loss cited as 22 December 1898). This vessel stranded at Loch Bay, Skye.
I G Whittaker 1998.



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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 26 54 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NG25SE

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