Maritime record 13694 - FANNY: VATERSAY BAY, VATERSAY, ATLANTIC

NL69NW 8003 c. 63 95
N56 55 W7 32

Possibly on map sheet NL69SW.

NLO: Bagh Siar [name centred NL 624 953]
Bagh Bhatarsaigh [name centred NL 648 953]
Vatersay/Bhatarsaigh [name centred NL 62 96].

30 November 1881, FANNY, 8 yrs old, St. John's, N.F.L., wooden brigantine, 157 tons, 9 crew, Master J. Morrissy, Owner G. W. Stewart, Greenock, departed Greenock for St. John's, N. F. L., carrying general cargo, wind S10, stranded, total loss, Vatersay Bay, Barra Isles, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1881-82 (1883 [C.3487] LXIII.135).

Barra, Dec. 2, FANNY, of and for St. John's (N.F.) from Greenock (general), drove ashore on the rocks at Vatersay Bay Nov. 30. She is dismasted and will probably become a total wreck. [Record received incomplete].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3240).

(Classified as wooden brigantine, with general cargo: date of loss cited as 30 November 1881). This vessel stranded in Vatersay Bay. Capt. Morrissy.
I G Whittaker 1998.

Vatersay Bay is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map. It is possibly to be equated with either Bagh Siar or Bagh Bhatarsaigh, on the W and E sides of the island respectively.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 June 2004.

REPORT DATE: 29/06/2004