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From wreck of HMS Dartmouth, off Eilean Rubha an Ridire, Sound of Mull

Postcard of Cannonballs.
000-100-079-372-C
© National Museums Scotland

Cannonballs

These ten iron cannonballs were recovered from the wreck of HMS Dartmouth which sunk in a storm off Eilean Rubha an Ridire in the Sound of Mull in 1690.

Cannonball from H.M.S. Dartmouth, lost off Duart Castle in 1699

HMS Dartmouth was part of a naval force intended to prevent Jacobites in Ireland and Scotland linking up and to harass the lands of clans loyal to the Jacobites. When the ship sank almost all the crew was lost.


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