Maritime record 13683 - MYRAH: AN T-OB, HARRIS, NORTH MINCH

NG08NW 8002 c. 01 86
N57 46 W7 2

NLO: An t-Ob [name centred NG 018 864]
Caolas na Hearadh (Sound of Harris): name centred NF 96 81.

23 September 1879, MYRAH, 15 yrs old, of Belfast, wooden brigantine, 139 tons, 6 crew, Master W. McLernan, Owner T. Lyons & Co., Belfast, departed Newcastle-on-Tyne for Kingstown, carrying coal, one life lost, wind SE10, stranded, total loss, Gomerson, Sound of Harris, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1879-80 (1881 [C.2906] LXXXII.889).

Stornoway, Sept. 23, 7.38 p.m., MYRAH schooner, of Belfast, McLernon master, from Newcastle for Kingstown (coals), went ashore at Obbe, Harris, today: one man drowned. Have wired for further instructions.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,408, London, Wednesday September 24 1879.

Stornoway, Sept. 30, MYRAH schooner, before reported sunk at Obbe, Harris, is said to have broken up. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 2962).

Gomerson is not cited as such on the 1996 edition of this OS 1:50,000 map, while Obbe is presumably to be equated with An t-Ob. The loss of this vessel is not cited by I G Whittaker (1998).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 18 May 2004.

REPORT DATE: 18/05/2004