For the Scottish loch, see Loch Sloy Hydro-Electric Scheme.
Loch Sloy
History
United Kingdom
Name
Loch Sloy
Owner
Loch Line
Builder
D. and W. Henderson and Company, Glasgow
Launched
August 1877
In service
1877
Out of service
24 April 1899
Fate
Wrecked 24 April 1899
General characteristics
Type
Clipper
Tons burthen
1,280 tons
Length
225 ft 4 in (68.68 m)
Beam
35 ft 5 in (10.80 m)
Depth of hold
21 ft 2 in (6.45 m)
Propulsion
Sail
Sail plan
Barque
Complement
26 crew
Loch Sloy was a Scottish sailing barque that operated between Great Britain and Australia from the late 19th century until 1899.[1] Her name was drawn from Loch Sloy, a freshwater loch which lies to the north of the Burgh of Helensburgh, in the region of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Ships Captains: 1877 - 1885 James Horne, 1885 – 1890 John McLean, 1890 – 1895 Charles Lehman, 1895 – 1896 James R. George, 1896 – 1899 William J. Wade, 1899 Peter Nicol.[2]
In the early hours of 24 April 1899, Loch Sloy overran her distance when trying to pick up the light at Cape Borda and was wrecked on Brothers Rocks, about 300 metres from shore off Maupertuis Bay, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.[3] Of the 34 passengers and crew on board, there were only four survivors, one who died from injuries and exposure shortly afterwards.[4][5]
^Cite error: The named reference Lubbock was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^The Ships List (2006), Tonnage: 1280 tons, Length: 225.5 feet, Breadth: 35.6 feet, Draught: 21.2 feet. Glasgow Shipping Company: Loch Line Archived 1 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 9 August 2008.
^"Wreck of the Loch Sloy". Sydney Morning Herald. 12 May 1899. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
^Hocking, Charles (1969). Dictionary of disasters at sea during the age of steam. Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London. OCLC 47378 ISBN 0-900528-03-6.
^Kangaroo Island Shipwreck Trail (2008). Wreck of the Loch Sloy Archived 26 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 6 August 2008.
LochSloy was a Scottish sailing barque that operated between Great Britain and Australia from the late 19th century until 1899. Her name was drawn from...
faithful to the names for natural bodies of water. For example, the LochSloy scheme and Lochs Laggan and Treig (which form part of the Lochaber hydroelectric...
standing start. The hydraulic head between LochSloy and the outflow into Loch Lomond at Inveruglas is 277 m. The loch is featured in a well-known song which...
pedestrian ferry. The Inveruglas Water flows into the loch at the hamlet, flowing down from LochSloy. The name of this watercourse is a curious back-formation...
construction of the Sloy Hydro-Electric facility between LochSloy and Inveruglas, on the west bank of Loch Lomond. Construction at the LochSloy project began...
stages of the construction of the Sloy/Awe Hydro-Electric facility between LochSloy and Inveruglas, on the west bank of Loch Lomond. The POWs and guards arrived...
Opened in 1945 by the LNER in connection with the construction of the LochSloy Hydro-Electric facility and was located on the Shandon side of the Chapel...
whitefish endemic to two lochs in Scotland, Loch Lomond and Loch Eck. It has been successfully introduced in two other sites, LochSloy and the Carron Valley...
subsidiary top of Beinn Dubh before falling to the valley at the north end of LochSloy. Dense forestry cloak the mountain on its lower southern slope in Allt...
shore of Loch Lomond from Tarbet up-wards. From LochSloy, a small sheet of water near the foot of Ben Vorlich, they took their war cry of Loch Slòigh....
Inchmurrin and Aber Isle. The much smaller Geal Loch, Lochan Beinn Damhain, Lochan Strath Dubh-uisge and LochSloy can also be found here. The area is also home...
during the construction of watercourse diversions forming part of the LochSloy hydro-electric scheme (Until the construction of new path, this was also...
on 20 March 1935. The greatest loss of life occurred with the wreck of LochSloy on 24 April 1899 at Maupertuis Bay, when 31 people were drowned, and one...
worked on planning for another hydro-electric scheme, that at LochSloy, to the west of Loch Lomond. Here he conceived the idea of a pumped storage system...
drowning the captain and 16 other crew. April 24 – The Scottish ship LochSloy is wrecked off the coast of Australia's Kangaroo Island, drowning 32 of...
Retrieved online 27 March 2008. The New York Times (1899). The Ship LochSloy Lost: Five Passengers and Twenty-five of the Crew Drowned. Retrieved online...
incidents in 1899 Shipwrecks 4 Mar: HMS Resistance 30 Mar: Stella 24 Apr: LochSloy 14 May: Gallia May (unknown date): City of Paris 4 Jun: Lindus, R.G. Stewart...
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