Maritime record 13681 - RACOON: HARSTMUL ISLAND, LOCH BAGHASDAIL, MINCH

NF82NW 8001 unlocated

NLO: Lochboisdale [name: NF 794 195]
Loch Baghasdail [name centred NF 802 185].

Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, 10th Oct., 7.30 p.m., the RACOON, of Aberdeen, Jones, has been wrecked off Loch Boisdale: crew landed here: condition of ship not yet ascertained.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 18,558, London, Monday October 13 1873.

Lochboisdale, 16th Oct., the RACOON, Jones, from Bangor to Aberdeen, with slates, which struck on a rock at Harstmul island, 9th Oct., will probably be a total wreck: her keel is broken, bottom much damaged and deck hogged: some of the materials and a greater part of the cargo has been landed. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3993).

(Name cited as Racoon, and classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of slates: date of loss cited as 9 October 1873). This vessel wrecked on rock off Harstmul Island, near Barra. Capt. Jones.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Harstmul Island cannot be located with certainty from the available map evidence. The name may be tentatively equated with Thairteamul [name: NF 833 113].
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 12 August 2004.

REPORT DATE: 12/08/2004