Maritime record 12273 - LADY OF THE FOREST: RONA RONAIDH, ATLANTIC

HW83SW 8001 c. 81 32
N59 7 W5 500

NLO: North Rona [Rona Ronaidh: HW 81 32].

27 May 1880, LADY OF THE FOREST, 39 yrs old, of Aberystwith, wooden schooner, 60 tons, 4 crew, Master R. Lewis, Owner Ann Jenkins, Borth, Cardiganshire, departed Ballinass for London, carrying bog ore, wind WNW10, foundered, N.E. side of Rona Island, Hebrides, N. Atlantic.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).

Greenock, June 3, 7.32 p.m., LADY OF THE FOREST. The captain of the steamer DUNARA CASTLE landed at Greenock yesterday forenoon Captain Lewis and three of the crew of the schooner LADY OF THE FOREST, of Aberystwith, which vessel foundered off Rona Isle on Thursday morning last, while on the passage from Ballynass (Ireland) to London.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,626, London, Saturday June 5 1880.

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2952).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of bog ore: date of loss cited as 27 May 1880). This vessel foundered off the NE side of Rona Island, Hebrides. Capt. Lewis.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The location cited for this loss remains unverified. The available evidence does not specify whether the vessel foundered off Rona Ronaidh (North Rona) or off the Island of Rona (name centred NG 62 57) to the E of Skye. The recorded route of the vessel makes the former appear the more probable.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 May 2004.

REPORT DATE: 18/05/2004