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MHG51969 - CATHIE: ORNSAY, SOUND OF SLEAT

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NG71SW 8012 c. 713 121
N57 8.6 W5 46.8
NLO: Ornsay [name centred NG 710 127]
Loch Alsh [name centred NG 80 25]
Sound of Sleat [name centred NG 72 09]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
(Classified as smack, with cargo of coal: date of loss cited as 30 July 1919). Cathie: this vessel stranded 100 yards North of Oronsay [Ornsay] Lighthouse, Sound of Skye. Capt. MacFadyen.
Registration: Greenock. Built 1893. 34nrt.
(Location of loss cited as N57 9.0 W5 47.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Isle Ornsay lighthouse (NG71SW 8.00) is at NG 71350 12183, on Eilean an Eoin, off the SE corner of Ornsay.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 February 2008. <1>

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Grid reference	NG 7130 1220 (point)
Map sheet	NG71SW
Geographical Area	MARITIME

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