Maritime record 13677 - JANE: MONACH ISLANDS, ATLANTIC

NF66SW 8007 unlocated

NLO: Heisker or Monach Islands (Theisgeir No Na h-Eileanan Monach): name centred NF 63 63.
[Extend onto map sheet NF56SE].

Possibly on map sheet NF56SE or NF66SE.

25 February 1862, JANE, brigantine, 92 tons, 6 crew, carrying coals, stranded, total loss, 1 life lost, wind SW9, Island of Heisker or Monuch [Monach], N. Uist.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1862 (1863 [3216] LXIII.165).
NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2158).

This loss may be equated with the wooden brigantine, carrying a cargo of coal, that Whittaker notes as having foundered on 18 February 1862. (Capt. Thomas: deposition taken at Stornoway).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 16 March 2004.
I G Whittaker 1998.

REPORT DATE: 16/03/2004