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MHG47028 - Sisters: Corpach, Loch Eil

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NMRS Report: (28/01/2005)
NN07NE 8004 c. 09 76
N56 50 W5 8

Possibly on map sheet NN17NW.

NLO: Loch Eil [name centred NN 02 77]
Corpach [name: NN 099 769]
Loch Linnhe [name centred NM 86 47]
Fort William [name: NN 105 740].

Inverness, 5th Jan. The SISTERS (schr.), of Aberdeen, McKenzie, from Riga to Londonderry, with linseed, caught fire while at anchor in the roads in the night of 3rd Jan., and was run ashore at Loch Eil, where she burnt to the water's edge: nothing saved but a few spars and sails and about a dozen barrels of linseed in a damaged state.
Source: LL, No. 16,456, London, Wednesday, January 9 1867.

Inverness, 8th Jan. There are about 300 barrels of damaged linseed in the bottom of the SISTERS, McKenzie, from Riga to Londonderry, which was burnt in the night of 3rd Jan., at Loch Eil.
Source: LL, No. 16,457, London, Thursday, January 10 1867.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 11166).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of linseed: date of loss cited as 3 January 1867). This vessel caught fire at anchor, and was beached at Loch Eil, near Corpach.
I G Whittaker 1998.

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Grid reference	Centred NN 09 75 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NN07NE

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