Maritime record 13760 - LITTLE NELL: BARRA HEAD, BERNERAY, ATLANTIC

NL58SW 8002 unlocated

16 November 1880, LITTLE NELL, 16 yrs old, of Brixham, wooden schooner, 132 tons, 5 crew, Master J. Worden, Owner E. Buse, Padstow, departed Runcorn for Newcastle, carrying chemical salt, wind NNE8, foundered, total loss, near Barra Head, Hebrides.
Source: PP Abstracts Returns of Wrecks and Casualties on Coasts of the UK 1880-81 (1882 [C.3177] LXIII.251).

Barra (Stornoway), Nov. 20, LITTLE NELL, from Runcorn for Newcastle (salt), foundered Nov. 16, south-east of Barra Head Light.
Source: Shipping Intelligence, LL, No. 20,776, London, Saturday November 27 [1880].

NMRS, MS/829/69 (no. 3032).

(Classified as wooden schooner, with cargo of chemical salt: date of loss cited as 16 November 1880). This vessel foundered near Braa Head. Capt. Worden.
I G Whittaker 1998.

The map sheet assigned to this record is arbitrary. Barra Head is not noted as such on the 1997 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map but the name has been applied to the lighthouse (NL58SW 7) at NL 5489 8025, on Rubha Sgait.
Larn and Larn cite a location (N57 0.3 W7 31.3) which falls on map sheet NF60SW, but the reason for this is unclear.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 22 April 2002.
R and B Larn 1998.

REPORT DATE: 10/06/2004