Loch Sloy was a Scottish sailing barque that operated between Great Britain and Australia from the late 19th century until 1899. Her name was drawn from...
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The Loch Sloy Hydro-Electric Scheme is a hydro-electric facility situated between Loch Sloy and Inveruglas on the west bank of Loch Lomond in Scotland...
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Retrieved online 27 March 2008. The New York Times (1899). The Ship Loch Sloy Lost: Five Passengers and Twenty-five of the Crew Drowned. Retrieved online...
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faithful to the names for natural bodies of water. For example, the Loch Sloy scheme and Lochs Laggan and Treig (which form part of the Lochaber hydroelectric...
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Loch Sletill (Flow Country, Caithness) Loch Sloy (reservoir) Loch na Smeòraich (near Plockton, Lochalsh) Soulseat Loch (Dumfries and Galloway) Loch Spallander...
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standing start. The hydraulic head between Loch Sloy and the outflow into Loch Lomond at Inveruglas is 277 m. The loch is featured in a well-known song which...
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construction of the Sloy Hydro-Electric facility between Loch Sloy and Inveruglas, on the west bank of Loch Lomond. Construction at the Loch Sloy project began...
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Inveruglas railway station (section Loch Sloy scheme)
stages of the construction of the Sloy/Awe Hydro-Electric facility between Loch Sloy and Inveruglas, on the west bank of Loch Lomond. The POWs and guards arrived...
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Inveruglas (category Loch Lomond)
pedestrian ferry. The Inveruglas Water flows into the loch at the hamlet, flowing down from Loch Sloy. The name of this watercourse is a curious back-formation...
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Opened in 1945 by the LNER in connection with the construction of the Loch Sloy Hydro-Electric facility and was located on the Shandon side of the Chapel...
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reaches 943 metres (3,094 ft), making it a Munro. It lies between Loch Lomond and Loch Sloy. Ben Vorlich is the highest point of the historic county of Dunbartonshire...
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whitefish endemic to two lochs in Scotland, Loch Lomond and Loch Eck. It has been successfully introduced in two other sites, Loch Sloy and the Carron Valley...
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shore of Loch Lomond from Tarbet up-wards. From Loch Sloy, a small sheet of water near the foot of Ben Vorlich, they took their war cry of Loch Slòigh....
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Inchmurrin and Aber Isle. The much smaller Geal Loch, Lochan Beinn Damhain, Lochan Strath Dubh-uisge, and Loch Sloy can also be found here. The area is also...
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pass of Rest and be Thankful and from the Loch Lomond side, using the private road that leads to Loch Sloy. "walkhighlands Beinn Ime". walkhighlands.co...
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Baltimore, Maryland. Loch Sloy — Built 1959 for NP/CB&Q North Coast Limited, current location: Illinois Railway Museum, Union, Illinois. Loch Arkaig — Built...
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demonstrate the effectiveness of the Board. He chose Loch Sloy as the first constructional scheme. The loch had been the proposed site of a 360 MegaWatt pumped...
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Arrochar Alps (section Lochs)
Eastern Gateway alongside Arrochar and Tarbet). Loch Goil Loch Restil Loch Long Loch Lomond Loch Sloy Loch Fyne Glenbranter (Parly) Hell's Glen Glen Kinglas...
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subsidiary top of Beinn Dubh before falling to the valley at the north end of Loch Sloy. Dense forestry cloak the mountain on its lower southern slope in Allt...
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1944, the first constructional scheme was published. This was for the Loch Sloy scheme, which had a ready market for bulk supplies to nearby Clydeside...
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on 20 March 1935. The greatest loss of life occurred with the wreck of Loch Sloy on 24 April 1899 at Maupertuis Bay, when 31 people were drowned, and one...
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Loch Sloy (Reservoir) - 6 km N of Arrochar Loch Tarsan - Glen Lean, Cowal Loch Tralaig - Kilmelford Loch Turamin (New Loch) - Isle of Colonsay Loch Uigeadail...
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worked on planning for another hydro-electric scheme, that at Loch Sloy, to the west of Loch Lomond. Here he conceived the idea of a pumped storage system...
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1944, the first constructional scheme was published. This was for the Loch Sloy scheme, which had a ready market for bulk supplies to nearby Clydeside...
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drowning the captain and 16 other crew. April 24 – The Scottish ship Loch Sloy is wrecked off the coast of Australia's Kangaroo Island, drowning 32 people...
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Inveruglas Isle (category Islands of Loch Lomond)
island within Loch Lomond, and lies off the shore at Inveruglas opposite Inversnaid at the north end of the loch. It is opposite the Loch Sloy powerstation...
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2024-05-25. The Scotsman (18 February 1950). "SCOTTISH POWER SCHEMES: Loch Sloy and Glen Lussa Ceremonies TUNNELS COMPLETED". The Scotsman. p. 5. mammal...
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areas. The first two major schemes promoted by the Board had been at Loch Sloy and Tummel-Garry, but both had been the subject of fierce opposition on...
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station" at Sloy in 1936, while working for the Central Electricity Board, but his idea was dismissed as uneconomic at the time. The Loch Sloy Hydro-Electric...
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incidents in 1899 Shipwrecks 4 Mar: HMS Resistance 30 Mar: Stella 24 Apr: Loch Sloy 14 May: Gallia May (unknown date): City of Paris 4 Jun: Lindus, R.G. Stewart...
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