Maritime record 13679 - LABUAN: EILEAN GLAS, SCALPAY, NORTH MINCH

NG29SW 8011 c. 247 947
N57 51.4 W6 38.5

NLO: Eilean Glas [name: NG 247 947]
Scalpay (Scalpaigh) [name centred NG 23 95]
Stornoway [name: NB 425 330].

28 June 1864, LABUAN, SS, of Hull, 723 tons, Official No. 25,619, Charles Hargitt, Master, departed Liverpool on 25 June, for Cronstadt, crew of 21, cargo of cotton and coals, stranded on a sunken rock named the Lag na Laire, near Glass Island, Stornoway. Large portion of cargo was saved, on 30 she broke in half and the after part settled in deep water. Inquiry at Liverpool.
Part III: Containing a Precis of Special Inquiries into Casualties, ordered by the Board of Trade during the Year 1864.

Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1864 (1865 [3529] L.439).

Stornoway, 29th June. The LABUAN (s.s.), of Hull, Hengitt, from Liverpool to Cronstadt, with cotton, struck during a fog yesterday on a rock off Glass Island in Harris, about 30 miles from this place, and lies in, a dangerous position.
Source: LL, No. 15,671, London, Saturday, July 2 1864.

A telegram has been received at Hull from Stornoway states that the LABUAN (s.s.), from Liverpool to Narva, is ashore off Glass Island bilged in main hold, with 12 feet water in her, and would begin to discharge cotton out of the after hold.
Source: LL, No. 15,671, London, Saturday, July 2 1864.

Greenock, 14th July. The CLANSMAN (s), arrived here yesterday with 360 bales of cotton, saved from the LABUAN (s.s.), from Liverpool to Narva, which was stranded off Glass Island 28th June: she reports the wreck as being in the same position.
Source: LL, No. 15,682, London, Friday, July 15 1864.

NMRS, MS/829/68 (no. 2219).

(Classified as steamship, with cargo of cotton and coal: date of loss cited as 28 June 1864). This vessel stranded on Scalpa [Scalpay], rocks SW of Harris.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Lag na Laire is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 March 2004.

REPORT DATE: 13/04/2004