Maritime record 13682 - ASTARTE: LOCH MADDY, NORTH UIST, LITTLE MINCH

NF96NW 8008 unlocated

NLO: Loch nam Madadh (Lochmaddy) [name: NF 918 689]
Loch Maddy (Loch nam Madadh) [name centred NF 931 685]
Caolas na Hearadh (Sound of Harris): name centred NF 96 81.

22 September 1879, ASTARTE, 15 yrs old, of Southampton, wooden cutter, 53 tons, 8 crew, Master and Owner R. A. Napier, Glasgow, departed Scalpay, Harris, for Glasgow, in ballast, 8 passengers, wind SSE10, stranded, total loss, Sound of Harris, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).

ASTARTE yacht, lost in Loch Maddy, Sept. 22 last, is now sunk in seven feet of tenacious mud, and has resisted all efforts of salvors to dislodge her. Attempts to raise her have been abandoned.
Source: General, Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,549, London, Saturday [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2960).

(Classified as wooden cutter, in ballast; date of loss cited as 22 September 1879). This vessel stranded in the Sound of Harris. Capt. Napier.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 May 2004.

REPORT DATE: 18/05/2004