MHG46484 - Sarah: Loch Slapin, Skye, Sea Of The Hebrides

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Type and Period (2)

  • WRECK (Undated)
  • SMACK (Unknown date)

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  • None recorded

Full Description

NMRS Report: (23/10/2003)
NG51NE 8004 c. 57 17
N57 11 W6 1

NLO: Loch Slapin [name centred NG 57 17].

Possibly on map sheet NG52SE.

17 November 1893, SARAH, 52 years, of Greenock. Wood smack. 26 ton. 2 men. Master J. Robertson. Owner L. Grant, Greenock. Stationed for herring curing in Loch Slapin, Isle of Skye.
Source: PP Abstracts of Shipping Casualties on Coasts, or in Rivers and Harbours of the UK July 1893-94 (1895 [C.7858] LXXXVII.327).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 1180).

(Classified as wooden smack, with cargo of herring: date of loss cited as 18 November 1893). This vessel was wrecked in Loch Slappin [Slapin].
I G Whittaker 1998.



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Map

Location

Grid reference Centred NG 57 16 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NG51NE

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